Korean J Head Neck Oncol.  2019 May;35(1):25-27. 10.21593/kjhno/2019.35.1.25.

A case of neck lipoblastoma in a pediatric patient

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. mdskbaek@gmail.com

Abstract

Lipoblastoma is a rare benign tumor with 80-90% occurring in children less than 3 years of age and 40% occurring in children less than 1 year of age. The most common site of incidence is limb, and then trunk. Neck is the rare site of incidence. The main symptom that the patient complains about is a rapidly growing neck mass without pain. When the size of mass increases, it can cause dyspnea, Horner's syndrome. Lipoblastoma is usually diagnosed as a lipoma in the fine needle aspiration. Since it is not differentiated from lipoma, liposarcoma, and hibernating adenoma in CT and MRI, the definitive diagnosis is histologic diagnosis through surgical resection. The treatment is complete surgical resection. And recurrence rate is 9-25% due to incomplete resection. Authors report this case with a review of literatures since we experienced a case of lipoblastoma diagnosed histopathologically after surgical treatment of neck mass.

Keyword

Lipoblastoma; Neck mass; Pediatrics

MeSH Terms

Adenoma
Biopsy, Fine-Needle
Child
Diagnosis
Dyspnea
Extremities
Horner Syndrome
Humans
Incidence
Lipoblastoma*
Lipoma
Liposarcoma
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neck*
Pediatrics
Recurrence
Full Text Links
  • KJHNO
Actions
Cited
CITED
export Copy
Close
Share
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
Similar articles
Copyright © 2024 by Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors. All rights reserved.     E-mail: koreamed@kamje.or.kr