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Lint: parosteal-lipoma

Acronyms
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"Will present as a T1/T2 hyperintense mass with loss of signal on fat suppression. MRI provides better contrast resolution for fibrovascular septa, which appear as low-signal-intensity strands on T1-weighted images and show higher signal intensity on long-TR images (particularly fat-suppressed sequences) 3. Enhancement around the osseous stalk may be seen 3."

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"Parosteal lipomas are benign tumours composed of mature adult fat, similar to that in soft-tissue lipomas. There is frequently an osseous stalk with cortical thickening 1-3. It shows lobular growth with thin intervening septations."

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"The most common sites are the femoral and radial diaphyses 3. Cases have also been reported in the humerus, tibia, scapula, clavicle, ribs, pelvis, metacarpals, metatarsals, mandible and skull 1,2."

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Oxford Comma
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"The most common sites are the femoral and radial diaphyses 3. Cases have also been reported in the humerus, tibia, scapula, clavicle, ribs, pelvis, metacarpals, metatarsals, mandible and skull 1,2."

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