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What Are The Risks Of Intraosseous Lipoma In The Femoral Neck Of My Hip?

Hi, I ve just been diagnosed with an intraosseous lipoma in the femoral neck of my hip. I have been discharged and have been told I need no further MRI imaging in the future. I was just checking this was appropriate as I have read on the Internet that these lesions need periodic imaging to keep an eye on it as they pose a rare but real threat of malignant transformation?
Fri, 28 Nov 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
In my opinion you should not worry much about cancer. Lipoma is benign soft tissue tumour mostly containing fat tissue. It is painless and harmless. Rarely it turned into malignancy , liposarcoma. But the chances of this is very very rare. Only 0.0001%. So no need to worry much abput malignancy.
But, yes you should definitely get done follow up of this lesion annually by MRI. Look for size and contours of lesion in follow up scans.
But at present no need to worry much. No possibility of cancer.
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What Are The Risks Of Intraosseous Lipoma In The Femoral Neck Of My Hip?

Thanks for your question on HCM. In my opinion you should not worry much about cancer. Lipoma is benign soft tissue tumour mostly containing fat tissue. It is painless and harmless. Rarely it turned into malignancy , liposarcoma. But the chances of this is very very rare. Only 0.0001%. So no need to worry much abput malignancy. But, yes you should definitely get done follow up of this lesion annually by MRI. Look for size and contours of lesion in follow up scans. But at present no need to worry much. No possibility of cancer.