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Interactive Case Study - September 2012

Four-year-old with a flank mass

Steven D. Billings, MD


Question 1:

A four-year-old girl presented with a new soft tissue mass on the flank.  The clinical differential diagnosis included lipoma versus cyst.  The histologic findings are presented in the figures below.

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The best diagnosis is: