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Yes. Lipomas can recur after surgical removal. However, it is also possible that an addtional lipoma developed close the original resection. Multiple lipomas are quire common.
Lipomas are benign tumors of adipocytes and can recur if incompletely excised. Patients will note a progressively enlarging mass along the area of the previous incision.
Lipomas can reappear after surgical excision. There may have been some remnants of the fat cells inn the first surgery site. The recurrences are usually smaller in sixze , compared to the original growth's size.Re-excision is the usual approach.
Any tumor (benign but especially malignant) can recur after removal. Assuming your lipoma is a benign tumor (based on a pathologist's examination of the specimen), the most common cause for recurrence is an incomplete removal the first time around. For this reason, while liposuction of a (benign) lipoma can be done, it is associated with a much higher rate of recurrence.Good luck.
Recurrence, or persistence. of a lipoma can be the result of incomplete removal. This would be more common if the removal was done with liposuction rather than open removal.
Lipomas are benign tumors composed of fat. If the entire lipoma has not been excised, it certainly can recur. To reassure you, this does not mean it is malignant . However, the original slides should be reviewed ( there is a variety of liposarcoma, well differentiated liposarcoma, which can look awfully benign) and the lipoma should again be excised, perhaps with a little wider margin.
Certain types of lipomas are tender, called angiolipomas. They can be removed if they bother you through small holes made with "punches", small circular blades that remove a small piece of skin like a cookie cutter removes dough. If the lipoma is encapulated or not adherent to the underlying...
It will probably be in your best interest to have the symptomatic lesions excised and evaluated pathologically. If this is done by a well experienced pathologists, he/she may be able to differentiate lipoma from the cutaneous lesions associated with benign symmetrical lipomatosis...
When patients present for lipoma removal in my practice, they usually pick the larger ones, the ones that bother them most cosmetically, or those that are causing some local pressure discomfort.The smaller ones are usually not treated unless they are closely accessible from the same incision...