Mediastinal Lipoblastoma Causing Diaphragm Eventration - A Challenging Entity

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Majd A. Hadad Abdulwahab S. Aljubab Alam Ara Shafi

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Alam Ara Shafi
General Surgery Department, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Lipoblastoma is a rare benign neoplasm and its mediastinal location is even rarer. We report a boy with anterior upper mediastinal fat density mass extended to neck root with ipsilateral diaphragm eventration. Preoperative diagnosis was a lipomatous neoplasm. The exact diagnosis was established after complete excision via a cervical approach with complete recovery.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 10, Aug 2020
Accepted: Mon 24, Aug 2020
Published: Tue 01, Sep 2020

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© 2023 Alam Ara Shafi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.09.01