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Case Reports
. 2022 Mar 29:22:ic4.
eCollection 2022.

Spindle Cell Lipoma in the Posterior Neck

Haruka Tajima  1 , Toshihito Mitsui  1 , Hiromu Masuoka  1 , Masakatsu Hihara  1 , Atsuyuki Kuro  1 , Masashi Kihara  1 , Natsuko Kakudo  1
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Case Reports

Spindle Cell Lipoma in the Posterior Neck

Haruka Tajima et al. Eplasty. .
No abstract available

Keywords: CD34; neck; spindle cell lipoma.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosures: The authors have no non-financial or commercial, proprietary, or financial interest in the products or companies described in the manuscript. The authors did not receive grants or a consultant honorarium to conduct the study, write the manuscript or otherwise assist in the development of the above-mentioned manuscript.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
A) Preoperative findings. A 71-year-old man with an elastic, soft, somewhat immobile 4 × 3-cm tumor on the left posterior neck. B) Signal intensity of the tumor in left posterior neck on MRI scans. In this T2-weighted image, the tumor shows heterogeneous internal structures.
FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
A) Preoperative findings. A 71-year-old man with an elastic, soft, somewhat immobile 4 × 3-cm tumor on the left posterior neck. B) Signal intensity of the tumor in left posterior neck on MRI scans. In this T2-weighted image, the tumor shows heterogeneous internal structures.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Operative findings, excised tumor.
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
A) Histological findings of the excised tumor. Hematoxylin-eosin staining shows mature adipocytes and spindle cell proliferation. B) Histological findings of the excised tumor. Immunohistochemistry shows CD34 positivity.
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
A) Histological findings of the excised tumor. Hematoxylin-eosin staining shows mature adipocytes and spindle cell proliferation. B) Histological findings of the excised tumor. Immunohistochemistry shows CD34 positivity.
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