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Case Reports
. 2022 Feb 13;10(2):e05455.
doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5455. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Spindle cell lipoma: An uncommon variant of lipoma affecting the foot sole

Nesrine Ben Salah  1 , Ines Lahouel  1 , Linda Manaa  1 , Monia Youssef  1 , Hichem Belhadjali  1 , Jameleddine Zili  1
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Case Reports

Spindle cell lipoma: An uncommon variant of lipoma affecting the foot sole

Nesrine Ben Salah et al. Clin Case Rep. .

Abstract

We report a 36-year-old male with an atypical variant of lipoma occurring on an atypical site.

Keywords: dermatology; foot sole; lipoma; orthopaedics; spindle cell.

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Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Painful swelling on the right foot sole
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Magnetic resonance imaging showing a multi‐lobulated lesion with a fat signal on all sequences, located in the extra aponeurotic subcutaneous soft tissue of the sole without deep extension
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
(A) Excisional biopsy showed lobules of mature adipocytes, a bland spindle cell proliferation admixed with eosinophilic collagen bundles (Hematoxylin‐eosin ×200); (B) Spindle cells with immunoreactivity for CD34 (×200)
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