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Case Reports
. 2006;51(2):97-100.

[Giant compressive mediastinal lipoma: a case report]

[Article in French]
As Ndiaye  1 , O Diarra, A N Diop, A G Ciss, P A Dieng, J M Dangou, M Ndiaye
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  • PMID: 17632985
Case Reports

[Giant compressive mediastinal lipoma: a case report]

[Article in French]
As Ndiaye et al. Dakar Med. 2006.

Abstract

Mediastinal lipoma is a rare mesenchymatous fatty tumor in child. Usually asymptomatic, it can cause asphyxiation. The authors report the case of an 18 month-baby-girl referred to us by the pediatric department for asphyxiation. The chest X ray was evocative of a mediastinal tumor. A sudden cardiorespiratory failure leads us to perform thoracotomy. A fatty tumor was found compressing the heart and the left lung. It was easily extirpated. The postoperative recovery was uneventful. Light microscopy showed a lipoma. This compressive form shows the severity of the mediastinal lipoma when it reaches a large size. The literature on this rare pathology is reviewed.

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