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2017, Volume 33, Number 2, Page(s) 161-163
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DOI: 10.5146/tjpath.2013.01207 |
A Rare Diagnosis in the Neck During Childhood: Congenital Chondrolipoma |
Fulya ÖZER1, Nebil BAL2 |
1Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Başkent University, Faculty of Medicine, ADANA, TURKEY
2Departments of Pathology, Başkent University, Faculty of Medicine, ADANA, TURKEY |
Keywords:
Congenital, Head and neck neoplasms, Childhood, Mesenchymal |
Chondrolipomas are mesenchymal tumors that found as mature
cartilage tissue in a fat tissue. A 2-year-old boy was seen with a
complaint of a mass of the neck. On physical examination of the
child, there was a one-centimeter mass above the sternocleidomastoid
muscle on the lateral neck. Pathological examination of this mass after
excision was reported as chondrolipoma. Chondrolipomas are seen
mostly in the breast and in the adult. They are rare tumors of the head
and neck area and seen mostly the in oral cavity here. This is the first
case of chondrolipoma with this age and localization combination in
the literature. Chondrolipoma should therefore also be considered
in the differential diagnosis of congenital masses located at lateral
cervical area.
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