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

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Summary

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.

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology, University Hospital St.Pölten, Probst Führer-Straße 4, 3100, St.Pölten, Austria

    Astrid Wolf-Magele MD, Johannes Schnabl MD & Georg Mathias Sprinzl MD

  2. Department of Otolaryngology, University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Christoph Url MD

  3. Institute of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital St.Pölten, St.Pölten, Austria

    Roland Sedivy MD

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Correspondence to Astrid Wolf-Magele MD.

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Wolf-Magele, A., Schnabl, J., Url, C. et al. Acute dyspnea caused by a giant spindle cell lipoma of the larynx. Wien Klin Wochenschr 128, 146–149 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-015-0866-8

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