Case report of buccal lipoblastomatosis in a 6-month-old infant

Summary 

Lipoblastomatosis and lipoblastomas are rare benign tumours arising from fetal–embryonal adipocytes. These tumours occur predominately in young children on their extremities. Chung and Ezinger (E.B. Chung, F.M. Ezinger, Benign lipoblastomatosis. An analysis of 35 cases. Cancer 32 (1973) 82–92) differentiated between the two types and described a lipoblastoma to be localised, and well-circumscribed arising from superficial fat tissue, and a lipoblastamatosis to be an unencapsulated, diffuse-type lesion that grows from deeply situated adipose tissue.

A case of a lipoblastomatosis in a 6-month-old infant is described. There are no reported cases of this tumour occurring in the facial–buccal region. Although these tumours are rare they should be included in differential diagnoses of soft tissue lesions in infants.

Keywords: Lipoma, Lipoblastoma, Lipoblastomatosis, Infancy, Childhood, Soft tissue tumours