American doctors published, last Wednesday (8/2), the report of a very rare case in the scientific journal Jama Dermatology. The patient, an unidentified woman, sprained her left hand while practicing yoga and noticed a green bruise forming in the region. However, the stain didn’t go away for the next two years, until she decided to seek medical help.
At the hospital, the patient underwent a series of tests that confirmed swelling in the region and still found a small mass. Through a biopsy, the doctors discovered that the cluster of cells was a lipofibroma, a kind of rare benign tumor.
According to professionals, the tumor formed due to an exaggerated response of the immune system to the torsion that the woman suffered in yoga.
Lipofibroma ou hamartoma lipofibromatoso
Nerve lipofibroma is a rare but benign tumor that mainly affects the nerves of the hands, wrist and forearm, according to the Brazilian Journal of Orthopedics.
The tumor is slow-growing, and the way it forms and evolves remains unclear—“the role that trauma plays in its development needs further investigation,” the doctors write in the case study.
Although the disease is not fatal, the tumor can form once more in the same place, even in the case of surgical intervention to remove it.
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