Fig. 49.

The influence of pre-operative symptoms on outcome for virgin lipomas after total resection. Kaplan-Meier analysis for asymptomatic virgin and symptomatic virgin lipomas after total resection. Progression-free probability at 20 years for asymptomatic virgin lipomas is 98.8%, versus 75.6% for symptomatic virgin lipomas. The difference is significant (p=0.006 by log-rank and 0.021 by Wilcoxon). Reprinted from Pang et al. [61] with permission from Springer Nature. Pt : patients, Asymptom : asymptomatic virgin lipomas, Symptom : symptomatic virgin lipomas.