Letter to Editor

Spindle cell lipoma (SCL) is an unusual lipoma variant that constitutes about 1.5 % of all adipocytic tumors. [1] It usually occurs in men, aged 45 to 70 years of age and commonly occurs in the shoulder and neck region. [2] It may be confused with other variants of lipoma on histopathological examination. We report one such interesting case. The patient, a 50 years old man, presented with a soft tissue swelling on the upper back for the last 4 years. The swelling was firm in consistency and mobile. The swelling was excised in toto On gross examination, it was grey-white in color, well encapsulated and firm in consistency. Microscopy showed a population of round to ovoid spindle cells interspersed with short parallel fibrocollagenous bundles surrounded by benign adipocyte cell clusters. Bundles of dense ropy collagen were observed (Fig 1)