A lipoma is a benign tumor composed of fatty tissue. These are the most common form of soft tissue tumor. Lipomas 
are soft to the touch, usually moveable, and are generally painless. Many lipomas are small (under one centimeter diameter) but can enlarge to sizes greater than six centimeters. Lipomas are commonly found in adults from 40 to 60 years of age, but can also be found in children. Some sources say that malignant transformation can occur, while others claim that this has yet to be convincingly documented (source: wikipedia.org).
This article of Lipoma was an emedicine surgery journal archive, one of the medcscape Journals in January 2009 issue. Written by Todd A Nickloes, DO, Assistant Professor of Surgery from Division of Trauma/Critical Care, University of Tennessee Medical. He said in his article that most of this article will be devoted to lipoma’s location for it because more than half of lipomas encountered by clinicians are subcutaneous in location.
He described about lipomas that must be differentiated from other masses or tumors such as hybernomas, atypical lipomatous tumors, Liposarcomas, mammary hamartoma, and angiomyolipomas. Another chapter were about Frequency, Etiology, Pathophysiology, Presentation, Indication-Contraindications, and Anatomic relevancies.
For its treatment, there were medical therapy and surgical therapy and then followed by keeped attention to the complication, outcome, and its prognosis. Find complete information about Lipoma’s Overview here in Full Text read from its original site, emedicine.medscape.com. Find also another Surgery Journal you may browse.
