What is a lipoma? General characteristics and treatment

Lipoma is a benign tumor consisting of adipose tissue. In most cases, it occurs in women after 30 years. In the people, she received a simple name - "zhirovik."

What is a lipoma? general characteristics

A tumor can appear on the body of a person anywhere, except for internal organs (even the brain, liver or stomach).

Usually it has clearly defined boundaries, painless, elastic, slightly mobile, soft enough to touch. At zhirovik lobulate structure, it is surrounded by a capsule (which sometimes can be absent).

In diameter, most often the tumor reaches 1-5 cm. However, lipomas are also found in a larger size - up to 10 cm. In this case, it can press on the nerve cells, causing the appearance of pain. The color of the skin at the place of its formation does not change.

A lipoma can be single or multiple. Most often it forms on the hips, abdomen, arms, in the lumbar region. To the doctor, as a rule, patients turn because of a cosmetic defect, because the lipoma slowly, but increases in size. Her degeneration into malignant formation was not observed.

What is a lipoma? Causes

Its appearance is not affected by the lifestyle or diet of a person.
But folk medicine is of the opinion that the beginning of growth of lipoma is associated with slagging of the body. Science does not prove this. There are no scientific reasons for the appearance of the zhirovik. But the onset of it affects heredity, especially if there is a multiple lipoma.

However, it is worth remembering that the patient's liver and various metabolic disorders can provoke a noticeable increase in size.

What is a lipoma? Its types

In the composition of a wen may be different types of tissue. There are the following types of tumors:

- The usual lipoma. It consists mainly of their adipose tissue.

- Fibrous lipoma. It is a dense wen with interlayers of connective tissue.

- Neurofibrolipoma. It contains nerve endings, connective, fatty, sometimes vascular tissue.

What is a lipoma? Treatment

The appearance of any neoplasms on the body is an occasion to call a specialist who will put an accurate diagnosis. Do not self-medicate, because the methods of traditional medicine are not able to achieve the disappearance of the lipoma. It can not dissolve by itself.

How to get rid of lipoma? Only by surgical method. At small sizes it is removed on an outpatient basis. Immediately after the operation, the patient is released home. At large sizes, the patient's lipoma is left in the hospital for several days so that the doctor can observe him.

The main indications for the removal of a benign tumor are:

- the appearance of pain;

- its negative impact on the normal functioning of organs;

- Significant increase in size;

- cosmetic discomfort.

At small sizes during the operation, local anesthesia is used, with significant anesthesia. Adipose tissue is removed through a small incision of the skin. After a few stitches are applied. Within 10 days, as a rule, there is a complete healing of the wound. In some cases, the adipose is removed by liposuction.

If the patient does not feel the discomfort and does not affect his health, then in this case it can be left untouched and not removed.