Texture analysis in a rare case of tibial intraosseous lipoma

Texture analysis in a rare case of tibial intraosseous lipoma

Authors

  • Marilina Totaro University of Ferrara, Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine Dept., Diagnostic Imaging Section, Ferrara, Italy
  • Daniele De Falco Alfano University of Ferrara, Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine Dept., Diagnostic Imaging Section, Ferrara, Italy
  • Francesco Negri Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Valeria Seletti Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Ilaria Paladini Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Giuseppe Russo Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Maurizio Mostardi ASL7 Siena, Italy
  • Chiara Ganazzoli Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Veronica Gafà Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Michele Corrado Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiological Sciences, University of Parma, Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
  • Melchiore Giganti University of Ferrara, Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine Dept., Diagnostic Imaging Section, Ferrara, Italy

Keywords:

texture analysis, intraosseous lipoma, musculoskeletal imaging

Abstract

Intraosseous lipoma is a very rare lesion, accounting for only 0.1% of all primary osseous tumors (1), first described in 1980 (2). This lesion is considered the rarest of benign bone tumors (3); probably it is not the actual incidence because these lesions are frequently asymptomatic and the introduction of cross-sectional imaging, especially MRI, seems to have increased the detection (4). The majority of intraosseus lipomas are in the lower limbs (70%) and the os calcis being the most frequently involved (32%). Most cases reported in literature have an age of 40 years (5). Tumor texture could be measured from medical images that provide a non-invasive method of capturing intratumoral heterogeneity and could potentially enable a prior assessment of a patient. Some Authors recently proposed Texture analysis to characterize musculoskeletal lesions (6). For the first time we measured the tumoral texture from Magnetic Resonance images in tibial intraosseous lipoma in a 29-years-old female. 

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Published

28-07-2016

How to Cite

1.
Totaro M, De Falco Alfano D, Negri F, et al. Texture analysis in a rare case of tibial intraosseous lipoma. Acta Biomed. 2016;87(3 - S):69-75. Accessed November 3, 2024. https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica/article/view/5646