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Vertebral Body Lipoma: An Unusual Pathology Treated With Kyphoplasty
Fikret Sahinturk1, Umit Akin Dere1, Erkin Sonmez1
1Department of Neurosurgery, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Study Design:
Case report.
Objective:
This case report is unique since this is the first vertebral lipom case that was treated by kyphoplasty alone.
Summary Of Background Data:
Vertebral lipoma is extremely rare and our search of the English literature has revealed 20 patients in 16 reports.
Methods:
A 32-year-old female patient was admitted to our neurosurgery department with the chief complaint of low back pain that had lasted nearly 1 year. A lumbar MR suggested a hemangioma and the patient was operated on.
Results:
On microscopic examination, the lesion was seen to have a widely infiltrating appearance of mature fat tissue between bone trabeculae diagnosis was intraosseous lipoma.
Conclusion:
We believe that the management should be surgical total removal of the lesion even in incidentally found cases in order to obtain histologic diagnosis and pain relief.
Level Of Evidence:
5.
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