A wide variety of routine and unusual fat-containing masses can arise in the abdomen and pelvis
Identifying fat within a lesion is critical to narrowing the differential diagnosis
CT and MRI are essential to characterizing these masses, and can often allow for a specific diagnosis or narrow differential diagnosis
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Mesentery: Lipoma causing midgut volvulus; Lipoma causing intussusception
Adrenal Gland: Teratoma; Giant Myelolipoma; Adrenal Adenoma; Adrenal Cortical Cell Carcinoma
Renal: Angiomyolipoma; Renal Cell Carcinoma
Ovarian: Dermoid; Monodermal Teratoma; Malignant Teratoma; Broad Ligament Liposarcoma
Pelvis: Liposarcoma; Extra-medullary Hematopoiesis; Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma
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Costa, A,
Thipphavong, S,
Atypical Extra-hepatic Fat-Containing Masses in the Abdomen and Pelvis. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14005880.html