ArticleBMJ case reports2022
Intramuscular lipoma of the temporalis muscle extending to the infratemporal fossa: surgical pitfalls and short literature review.
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- [A case report of recurrent giant intermuscular lipoma in the temporal region].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2026Article
- Masseteric giant capillary haemangioma: a bulky mass treated with scarless and minimally invasive surgery.BMJ case reports · 2022Article
- The clinicopathological features and treatments of odontogenic keratocysts.American journal of cancer research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Lipomas are benign tumours of mesenchymal origin, representing one of the most common tumours of the body. They are often observed between the fourth and the sixth decade of life and in 13% of the cases they occur in the head and neck region. In case of symptoms, surgical removal is the treatment of choice; when the formation involves the temporal region, the surgical approach is often challenging due to the presence of the neurovascular structures, such as the temporalis branch of the facial nerve and their potential extension to the nearby structures under the zygomatic arch to either the infratemporal fossa or the buccal region. Recurrence can occur frequently only if there is incomplete removal of lipoma. In this paper, the authors discuss surgical pitfalls of a very rare case of a large-sized symptomatic lipoma extended to the infratemporal and pterygomaxillary fossa, surgically removed via trans-zygomatic hemicoronal approach.
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