Lipoma Arborescens of the Elbow: Case Report
Dilek BADAY1, Meltem ARAS1, Aysel ÇOLAK2, Şükrü Cem HATİPOĞLU3, Özdamar Fuad ÖKEN4, Sumru ÖZEL1
1Depatment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ankara Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital, Ankara , Turkey
2Department of Pathology, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Radiology, Ankara Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
4Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Keywords: Arthritis, elbow, lipoma arborescens, magnetic resonance imaging, synovectomy
Abstract
Lipoma arborescens is a rare, benign articular lesion characterized by villous lipomatous proliferation of the synovium caused by replacement of mature fat cells with subsynovial tissue. Although the knee is the most affected joint, lipoma arborescens has also been observed in other locations such as glenohumeral joint, subdeltoid/bicipital bursae, hip, elbow, wrist, and rarely elbow joints. In this article, we report a rare case of lipoma arborescens at the elbow joint in a 30-year-old female patient with cerebral palsy.
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