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Abstract
A benign tumor composed of fat cells (ADIPOCYTES). It can be surrounded by a thin layer of connective tissue (encapsulated), or diffuse without the capsule.
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- Fatty Tumor
- Lipomata
- Fatty Tumors
- Lipomas
- Lipomatas
- Tumor, Fatty
- Tumors, Fatty
- Atypical Lipoma
- Hibernoma
- Lipoma, Pleomorphic
- Lipomatosis, Multiple
- Atypical Lipomas
- Hibernomas
- Lipoma, Atypical
- Lipomas, Atypical
- Lipomas, Pleomorphic
- Lipomatoses, Multiple
- Multiple Lipomatoses
- Multiple Lipomatosis
- Pleomorphic Lipoma
- Pleomorphic Lipomas
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, blood supply, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
solitary neoplastic; for non-neoplastic see LIPOMATOSIS; coordinate with precoordinated organ/neoplasm term
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History Note
FATTY TUMOR was heading 1963-67
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Lipoma. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008067. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008067
- Lipoma. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoma
- Lipoma. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q689985