Lipogranuloma

About: Lipogranuloma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 109 publications have been published within this topic receiving 982 citations.

Lipogranuloma of Mesentery Producing Abdominal Mass

Abstract: The surgeon may be confused as to the nature of the lesion when he first encounters a large mass, in the mesentery of the small bowel, produced by a lipogranuloma. The lesion should be recognized as a benign process for which biopsy is the only feasible surgical procedure. These masses are thought to be the result of degenerative and mild chronic inflammatory changes in the fat. There have been several reports in recent years concerning these lesions. 1,2,4,6 Accurate terminology of this lesion is difficult because of the poorly understood pathogenesis and clinical course. There are several interesting problems relative to the lesion such as the clinical manifestations of an asymptomatic palpable abdominal mass in some patients but recurrent abdominal pain in others, and a premortem diagnosis is possible only at the time of surgery. We have encountered the lesion in two patients. It seems likely that it is more

Sclerosing lipogranuloma resulting from exogenous lipids.

Abstract: The term ``sclerosing lipogranuloma'' has recently been proposed by Smetana and Bernhard * for a peculiar granulomatous reaction that occurs in subcutaneous fat tissue after injury of various types. It was their feeling that this traumatic sclerosing lipogranuloma is related to, but may be distinguished from, traumatic fat necrosis of the breast, relapsing nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis, adiponecrosis neonatorum, lipid pneumonia, pelvic lipogranuloma caused by iodized oils injected for uterosalpingography, and other artificial lipogranulomas. They presented 14 cases, all occurring in males. Their ages varied from 20 to 60 years. In nine cases these lesions were in the genital region, involving either the penis or the scrotum, or both. In an additional five cases the buttocks, eye, arm, and the floor of the bladder were the sites of involvement. The process had persisted in most cases for a considerable period of time, and in no instance did healing

Disseminated lipogranulomas and sudden death from self-administered mineral oil injection.

Abstract: The cosmetic injection of exogenous lipids and more recently of polydimethyl siloxane (injectable silicone) into the scrotum has been described since 1899. Sclerosing lipogranuloma and paraffinoma are terms applied to a complication of this practice in which the injected oils or silicone elicit a marked granulomatous reaction with prominent surrounding fibrosis. Although this complication has been described as a localized process occurring mainly in the scrotal area and regional lymph nodes, few studies have documented systemic manifestations. In this report we describe the autopsy findings of a 48-year-old man who had scrotal and systemic lipogranulomas from repeated self-administered injection of mineral oil. In addition, severe acute pulmonary edema resulted in sudden unexpected death. To our knowledge, this fatal complication of exogenous lipogranuloma has not been previously reported. Language: en