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Tumors of the adipose tissue are among some of the most common soft tissue tumors encountered by pathologists. Most of these entities are lipomas that pose no diagnostic difficulty; however, the diagnosis of some tumor variants could be more challenging. Lipomatous lesions can show a broad morphological spectrum, and a 2011 study focusing on these tumors led to the delineation of new tumor variants often resembling each other (mainly chondroid lipoma and myxoid liposarcoma) as well as the introduction of new con-cepts regarding the interactions of molecular genetics and pathology.3 In the World Health Organization (WHO) clas-sification of human tumors of soft tissue and bone, there are 14 types of benign tumors of adipose tissue, including specific variants such as fibrolipoma, myxolipoma, angioli-poma, hibernoma, chondroid lipoma, and chondrolipoma.