The lipoma is a large ball of fat. It can be surgically excised, it can be liposucitoned of Smart Lipo can be used to also tighten the skin above it.
What are my Lipoma treatment options?
I might have a lipoma and I am just curious about what kind of lipoma treatments exist. Is surgery the only option for lipoma removal or do people with lipomas have other options?
3 answers to “What are my Lipoma treatment options?”
A: Lipoma Size is Key - as well as MRI features
Surgeons are taught to be suspicous of lipomas when their size exceeds 5 cm. Of course, the best course is to resect ( excise) the lesion and send it to the pathologist for review. Giving the pathologist a soupy specimen with fat cells in it does not make it possible to determine if you removed the whole thing... more
A: Lipoma removal options
Since lipomas are exceedingly rarely cancer, there is no reason that lipomas have to be removed from a medical standpoint, as long as you are sure that it is a lipoma. To be sure that it is a lipoma, one needs to have had a biopsy and look at it pathologically. If the lipoma is unsightly, and you... more
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