Symptomatic pleural lipoma

Dragana Ratko Tegeltija; Milorad Bijelović; Golub Samardžija; Tijana Vasiljević

doi:10.2298/AOO180617006T

Dragana Ratko Tegeltija University of Novi Sad - Faculty of Medicine Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia; Institute for pulmonary diseases of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia.
Milorad Bijelović University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Hajduk Veljkova 3, Novi Sad; Institute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Put doktora Goldmana 4, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia
Golub Samardžija University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Hajduk Veljkova 3, Novi Sad; Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of Vojvodina, Department of Pathology, Put doktora Goldmana 4, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia
Tijana Vasiljević University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Hajduk Veljkova 3, Novi Sad; Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Department of Pathoanatomical and Laboratory Diagnostics, Put doktora Goldmana 4, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/AOO180617006T

Keywords: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, Lipoma,

Abstract

Symptomatic pleural lipoma is an extremely rare clinical entity that can occur in all age groups and involve both sexes equally. The treatment can be done using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. We report a case of symptomatic pleural lipoma that was successfully removed using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Author Biography

Dragana Ratko Tegeltija, University of Novi Sad - Faculty of Medicine Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia; Institute for pulmonary diseases of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia.

Department of pathologySpecialist of pathology and subspecialists of cytology

Doctor of medical science

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