A lipoma is a lump under the skin that occurs due to an overgrowth of fat cells. Lipomas are typically harmless but people may wish to remove one that causes pain, complications, or other symptoms ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 88-year-old male suffering from a fatty tumor located on my gluteus maximus. Two different local gastroenterologists have refused to remove this 2.5-inch-diameter tumor, ...

Lumps under the skin can be a huge shock for those affected. If they are lipomas, there’s no need to worry: These slow-growing, benign tumors originate from fat cells and are harmless in most cases.

Dr. Sandra Lee – better know as Pimple Popper to her internet admirers – removed a "cute, bouncy" lipoma from a man's temple in her latest YouTube video. She said a lipoma, or benign fatty tumor, had ...

Lipomas can occur in the heart, including in the visceral and parietal pericardium. Parietal pericardial lipomas are often clinically mistaken for pericardial cysts. Multiple myocardial lipomas have ...

A 52-year-old woman presented to hospital for dyspnea that had been progressively worsening for the past 8 months. She had been referred by a rheumatology outpatient clinic. She told clinicians that ...