PMC5437787_01
Clinical image showing dorsolumbar lipoma
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A 4-month-old female baby presented with a 5 cm x 7 cm sized protruding, nontender, soft, subcutaneous mass in the lower lumbosacral area which was observed since birth [Figure 1].
Magnetic resonance imaging T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and fat suppression images demonstrating noncontiguous spinal lipomas
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T1- and T2-weighted images, suppressed on short TI inversion recovery images from the L3 area to the sacrum [Figure 2]. Through the bony defect from L5 to S1, the subcutaneous fat was connected to the spinal cord and there was found as a spinal lipoma of the transitional type in the area of L3-L5.
Operative photographs showing noncontiguous double lipomas and white plane after complete excision of transitional lipoma
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Filum lipoma was excised [Figure 3].