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  2. Lipoma - Wikipedia

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    Lipomas have a prevalence of roughly 2 out of every 100 people. [2] Lipomas typically occur in adults between 40 and 60 years of age. [1] Males are more often affected than females. [1] They are the most common noncancerous soft-tissue tumor. [5] The first use of the term "lipoma" to describe these tumors was in 1709. [6]

  3. Familial multiple lipomatosis - Wikipedia

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    The lipomas are well-encapsulated, slow-growing, benign fatty tumors. The distribution is defined as being focused in the trunk of the body and extremities. [2] Familial Multiple Lipomatosis can be identified when multiple lipomas occur in multiple family members that span different generations. [2] Some people may have hundreds of lipomas ...

  4. Lipomatosis - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, a genetic polymorphism within lipomas was localized to chromosome 12q15, where the HMGIC gene encodes the high-mobility-group protein isoform I-C. [2] This is one of the most commonly found mutations in solitary lipomatous tumors but lipomas often have multiple mutations. Reciprocal translocations involving chromosomes 12q13 and 12q14 ...

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  6. Dercum's disease - Wikipedia

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    Dercum's disease is a rare condition characterized by multiple painful fatty tumors, called lipomas, that can grow anywhere in subcutaneous fat across the body. [1] Sometimes referred as adiposis dolorosa in medical literature, Dercum’s disease is more of a syndrome than a disease (because it has several clinically recognizable features, signs, and symptoms that are characteristic of it and ...

  7. Benign tumor - Wikipedia

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    For example, a lipoma is a common benign tumor of fat cells , and a chondroma is a benign tumor of cartilage-forming cells (chondrocytes). Adenomas are benign tumors of gland-forming cells, and are usually specified further by their cell or organ of origin, as in hepatic adenoma (a benign tumor of hepatocytes, or liver cells).

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