{"title":"A rare cause of facial asymmetry: Recurrent hemifacıal lipomatosis","authors":"Yasin Gunes, D. Cılız, H. Çetin","doi":"10.4103/tjps.tjps_2_22","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The hemifacial lipomatosis (HL) is an extremely rare pathology that results in partial hemifacial hypertrophy. This case report presents a 16-year-old male patient who underwent surgery for swelling in the right hemifacial region 11 years ago and then presented to our hospital with a diagnosis of recurrent HL in the same area.","PeriodicalId":42065,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Plastic Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Turkish Journal of Plastic Surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/tjps.tjps_2_22","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"SURGERY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The hemifacial lipomatosis (HL) is an extremely rare pathology that results in partial hemifacial hypertrophy. This case report presents a 16-year-old male patient who underwent surgery for swelling in the right hemifacial region 11 years ago and then presented to our hospital with a diagnosis of recurrent HL in the same area.