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Lipoma

"Lipoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A benign tumor composed of fat cells (ADIPOCYTES). It can be surrounded by a thin layer of connective tissue (encapsulated), or diffuse without the capsule.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lipoma" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lipoma" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1994 and 2002 and 2010
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