Hibernoma

Hibernoma
Micrograph of a hibernoma. H&E stain.
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A hibernoma is a benign neoplasm of vestigial brown fat. They were first described under the name ‘pseudolipoma’ by the German physician H. Merkel in 1906 and the term hibernoma was proposed by the French anatomist Louis Gery in 1914 because of its resemblance to brown fat in hibernating animals. [1][2][3]

  1. ^ Gavriilidis, Paschalis; Panselinas, Grigorios; Zafiriou, Georgios (2012-11-30). "Hibernoma of the thigh: a lipoma-like variant rare tumour mimicking soft tissue sarcoma". BMJ Case Reports. 2012: bcr2012007315. doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-007315. ISSN 1757-790X. PMC 4543678. PMID 23203180.
  2. ^ "On the ultrastructure of hibernoma". Cancer. November 1975.
  3. ^ Lexicon Orthopaedic Etymology. CRC Press. 1999. p. 147. ISBN 9789057025976.