Moshref Leena H, Malaekah Haifaa
Department of General Surgery, Doctor Soliman Fakeeh Hospital, Jeddah, SAU.
Department of General Surgery, Fakeeh College of Medical Sciences, Jeddah, SAU.
Cureus. 2021 Nov 30;13(11):e20066. doi: 10.7759/cureus.20066. eCollection 2021 Nov.
A 40-year-old woman presented with a huge right labial swelling that had been enlarging gradually for the last four years. A 10-cm labial swelling was revealed on clinical examination. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to rule out other possible diagnoses, such as hernias, vulvar cysts and tumours. When it came to assessing and diagnosing soft tissue swelling, MRI was the method of choice. It determined that the swelling had a bright T1 and T2 signal intensity similar to that of subcutaneous fat, with a decline in signal in fat-saturated sequences, indicating a diagnosis of vulvar lipoma. The mass was surgically excised, and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of a benign lipoma. Lipomas are considered the most common soft tissue tumours accounting for a prevalence of 1% in the population. Their occurrence in the vulva in premenopausal women is considered rare and only a few cases of vulvar lipomas have been reported in the literature. Herein, we report a rare case of a patient with vulvar lipoma and review the available literature.
一名40岁女性因右侧阴唇巨大肿物就诊,该肿物在过去四年中逐渐增大。临床检查发现阴唇肿物大小为10厘米。术前采用磁共振成像(MRI)排除其他可能的诊断,如疝、外阴囊肿和肿瘤。在评估和诊断软组织肿胀时,MRI是首选方法。结果显示该肿物在T1和T2加权像上信号强度与皮下脂肪相似,在脂肪抑制序列中信号减弱,提示诊断为外阴脂肪瘤。该肿物经手术切除,组织病理学证实为良性脂肪瘤。脂肪瘤被认为是最常见的软组织肿瘤,在人群中的患病率为1%。其在外阴绝经前女性中的发生较为罕见,文献中仅报道过少数外阴脂肪瘤病例。在此,我们报告一例罕见的外阴脂肪瘤患者病例,并复习相关文献。