Patient Info
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 47
- Surgeon:
- Dr. Inessa Fishman
Description
This 47-year-old woman was bothered by a bump-like growth on her forehead. She noticed this 6-7 years ago, and it had grown slowly over time. Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Inessa Fishman treated her with a minor surgical procedure in our office, removing the growth through an incision in her hair-bearing scalp for best scar camouflage. The bump turned out to be a lipoma, or a benign, slow growing fat tumor. The patient is shown 2 months after surgery, with great healing and an excellent treatment outcome.
Lipomas are usually slow-growing and painless fatty growths which feel soft to the touch, and can develop in the forehead, face, or body. Even though they typically do not have associated symptoms, they can bother patients with the appearance. Our main treatment for lipomas is surgical removal, and for forehead lipomas, we typically do surgery through a small incision carefully hidden in the scalp hair, or within a forehead wrinkle, so as to best hide the resulting scar.