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Case Reports

Parosteal Lipoma of the Rib

^a Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
^b Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Accepted for publication June 16, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Paik, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 133-792, Korea (Email: sspaik{at}hanyang.ac.kr).

Parosteal lipoma is a rare benign tumor that is composed mainly of benign mature lipocytes, and it has an intimate association with the underlying periosteum of affected bone. Parosteal lipoma involving the rib is quite rare. We believe that only four cases have been previously reported in the English literature. Here we describe an exceedingly rare case of parosteal lipoma that developed in the right seventh rib, which presented in a 50-year-old man having a previous history of trauma at this site.