• Spine · Oct 2018

    Case Reports

    Vertebral Body Lipoma: An Unusual Pathology Treated With Kyphoplasty.

    • Fikret Sahinturk, Umit Akin Dere, Erkin Sonmez, Nur Altinors, and Ayşen Terzi.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
    • Spine. 2018 Oct 1; 43 (19): E1170-E1173.

    Study DesignCase report.ObjectiveThis case report is unique since this is the first vertebral lipom case that was treated by kyphoplasty alone.Summary Of Background DataVertebral lipoma is extremely rare and our search of the English literature has revealed 20 patients in 16 reports.MethodsA 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.ResultsOn microscopic examination, the lesion was seen to have a widely infiltrating appearance of mature fat tissue between bone trabeculae diagnosis was intraosseous lipoma.ConclusionWe 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 Evidence5.

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