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MRI findings of an intermuscular lipoma in a 2-year-old.

Grandbois L, Vade A, Lim-Dunham J, Al-Masri H

Department of Radiology, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, IL, 60153, USA, lgrandbois@lumc.edu.

We report the MRI findings of a large deep intermuscular lipoma in a 2-year-old child with a painless palpable shoulder mass, and its differentiation from liposarcoma and other soft-tissue masses. To our knowledge, the imaging features of deep lipomas in children have not been reported.

Published 9 August 2006 in Pediatr Radiol, 36(9): 974-6.
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