Melike GÜNGÖR, Emin SIR, Alper AKSOY, Şule AĞIRBAŞ

Giant lipoma extending into two thigh canals: A case report

Giant lipomas, although rare, represent a real diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We report an unusualgiant lipoma of the thigh extending into two thigh canals and it's diagnostic and therapeutic processes.© 2017 Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This isan open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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