Journal of Case Reports: Clinical & Medical 01 Giant Angiomyxolipoma of the Scalp. Journal of Case Reports: Clinical & Medical. 2018; 1(3):122. ARTICLE INFO KEYWORDS Case Report Gulsah Ozturk * , Gokalp Silav and Nezih Ozkan Department Neurosurgery, Acibadem University Hospital, Turkey Received Date: August 15, 2018 Accepted Date: October 08, 2018 Published Date: October 17, 2018 Angiomyxolipoma AML MRI Copyright: © 2018 Ozturk G et al., Journal of Case Reports: Clinical & Medical This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Citation this article: Gulsah Ozturk, Gokalp Silav and Nezih Ozkan. Giant Angiomyxolipoma of the Scalp. Journal of Case Reports: Clinical & Medical. 2018; 1(3):122 Corresponding author: Gulsah Ozturk, Department Neurosurgery, Acibadem University Hospital, Neurosurgery Halkali Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: +905334179039; Email: turksah@hotmail.com ABSTRACT Angiomyxolipoma (AML), is a rare lipoma variant with characteristic histopathological and immuno-histochemical features . Here we present a case of angiomyxolipoma appearing in the subcutaneous tissue of the scalp with the size of 9.0x3.0 cm. Review of literature reveals 24 cases of AML with two cases of scalp lesion being reported up to date. This is the first case study which has been demonstrated the rate of growing size as 4,5 times in 18 months in this pathology. INTRODUCTION Vascular Myxolipoma is a very rare variant of lipoma that was firstly described in 1996 by Mai [1]. at the region of spermatic cord ¹. Since then, only 24 cases reported so far in current literature in different sites (Table 1). Case Reference Gender/Age(y) Location Duration Dimention(cm) 1 Mai et al. M/32 Spermatic cord 3 month 2.5 2 Zamecnik M/57 Scalp NS 1.5 3 Okafor et al. M/50 Back 3y 3.5 4 Sciot et al. F/60 Thigh 4 month 6.2 5 Tardio et al. M/66 Scalp NS 2.5 6 Lee et al. M/44 Forearm 7y 6 7 Lee et al. M/57 Wrist 2y 5 8 Sanchez et al. M/43 Subungual area 1y 0.6 9 Kang et al. M/38 Gluteal area 3y 2 10 Song et al. M/69 İliac crest 3y 2 11 Kim et al. M/9 suprapatellar 5y 8.5 12 Martinez-Mata et al. M/12 Buccal mucosa NS 6 13 Pukar et al. F/15 Colon 6 month 4 14 Bergin et al. F/51 Knee NS NS 15 Al Shraim et al. M/4 Plantar 8 month 2.5 16 Hantous-Zannad et al. F/49 Posterior mediastinum 2y 6.5 17 Hammedi et al. M/50 Thigh 1y 10 18 Topak et al. M/17 Parapharyngeal space 4y 5 19 Nair et al M/70 Oral cavity 1y 3,6 20 Cho et al. M/72 Spermatic cord 1 month 9.8 21 Bajpai et al M/51 Tongue NS NS 22 Traboulsi et al. M/43 Bilateral kidneys 1y 12 23 Al-Bdairat et al. F/78 Sub-Brow 4 month 3,5 24 Rhee et al. M/32 Thumb 7y 1 25 Present case M/33 Scalp 18 month 9 NS not specified Giant Angiomyxolipoma of the Scalp Table 1: Clinical features of reported cases of anjiomyxolipoma