Growing Peripheral Pulmonary Lipoma: A Case Report

Lipomas are common benign tumors, but intrathoracic lipomas are rare. Intrathoracic lipomas can be categorized into endobronchial, pulmonary parenchymal, pleural, mediastinal and cardiac lipomas. Among them, parenchymal lipomas are extremely rare, and an exact incidence is not established. In this case, we described a case of peripheral pulmonary parenchymal lipoma which has been growing for 7 years. To our knowledge, fourteen cases have been described in the literature, worldwide, and this is a first case of peripheral pulmonary parenchymal lipoma that demonstrated growth, almost doubling in size, during a 7 year period. KCI Citation Count: 0