Acute dyspnea caused by a giant spindle cell lipoma of the larynx

Astrid Wolf-Magele; Johannes Schnabl; Christoph Url; Roland Sedivy; Georg Mathias Sprinzl

doi:10.1007/s00508-015-0866-8

Acute dyspnea caused by a giant spindle cell lipoma of the larynx

Astrid Wolf-Magele, Johannes Schnabl, Christoph Url, Roland Sedivy, Georg Mathias Sprinzl

Division of Otorhinolaryngology (University Hospital St. Pölten)
Institute of Clinical Pathology and Molecular Pathology of the Lower Austria Central Region (University Hospital St. Pölten)

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The spindle cell lipoma (SCL) is a special type of lipoma and this is very rare in the head and neck regions. There are only five reported cases exist, which describes the occurrence of a SCL in the hypopharynx.

METHODS: Our case report presents a case of a very large SCL in the larynx. We want to describe that how we treated the patients and compared the situation with other reported cases.

RESULTS: Intraoperatively, we found a tumor mass of 7 × 5 cm. It was successfully removed with the carbon dioxide laser. No postoperative complications occurred.

CONCLUSIONS: Although SCL is a very rare diagnosis in the larynx/hypopharynx, it should be included in the differential diagnosis of larynx/hypopharynx tumors. Our case is the first report of such a large SCL in the larynx. The clinical symptoms occurred relatively late and ended up in an acute situation of stridor and dyspnea.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	146-149
Number of pages	4
Journal	Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift
Volume	128
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-015-0866-8
Publication status	Published - 01 Feb 2016

Keywords

Diagnosis, Differential
Dyspnea/diagnosis
Humans
Laryngeal Neoplasms/complications
Laryngectomy/methods
Lipoma/complications
Male
Middle Aged
Treatment Outcome
Acute dyspnea
CO laser
Spindle cell lipoma
Larynx

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General Medicine

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