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Axillary lipoma

Case contributed by Naqibullah Foladi
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Left axillary swelling and pain for 1 year.

Patient Data

Age: 60 years old
Gender: Female
mri

There is a large well-defined abnormal signal intensity structure in the left axillary region between pectoralis muscle and subscapularis muslce. It is returning high T1 and T2 signal intensities with homogenous loss of signal in fat saturation sequence.

No diffusion restriction on DWI and ADC maps.

The muscle bulk around the left shoulder joint is preserved.  

Case Discussion

The features are consistent with left chest wall encapsulated lipoma.  

 

 

 

This case is also contributed by Dr. Najibullah Rasouly

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