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Neoplasms > Neoplasms by Histologic Type > Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue > Neoplasms, Adipose Tissue > Lipoma

Preferred term

Lipoma  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Fatty Tumor
  • Fatty Tumors
  • Lipomata
  • Lipomatas
  • Tumor, Fatty
  • Tumors, Fatty

Note

  • solitary neoplastic; for non-neoplastic see LIPOMATOSIS; coordinate with precoordinated organ/neoplasm term

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • FATTY TUMOR was heading 1963-67

In other languages

  • lipooma

    Finnish

  • benign lipom i hud eller subkutan vävnad med annan eller icke specificerad lokalisation
  • lipoma
  • muun tai määrittämättömän sijaintipaikan ihon tai ihonalaiskudoksen hyvänlaatuinen rasvakasvain
  • neoplasma benignum lipomatosum cutis sive textus subcutanei locis aliis sive non specificatis
  • rasvakasvain
  • Lipom

    Swedish

  • Atypisk lipom
  • Fettknöl
  • Fettsvulst
  • Multipel lipomatos
  • Pleomorft lipom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008067

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