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Fibrolipoma of the median nerve.

Nouira K, Belhiba H, Baccar S, Miaaoui A, Ben Messaoud M, Turki I, Cheour I, Menif E

Medical Imaging Department, La Rabta Hospital, 5 Rue Ibn Messaoud, El Menzah 6, 2091 Tunis, Tunisia.

Neural fibrolipoma or fibrolipomatous hamartoma is an uncommon benign tumor that usually arises in the median nerve. Fibrofatty tissue proliferates around the nerve and infiltrates the epineurium and perineurium. We report a case of fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the left median nerve in an 18-year-old woman. Our objective was to describe the pathognomonic magnetic resonance imaging features, whose presence obviates the need for a diagnostic biopsy.

Published 20 December 2006 in Joint Bone Spine.
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