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Scoring system used to predict difficult lipoma surgery
| Factor | Point |
|---|---|
| Subfascial intramuscular location | 1 |
| Tumor broadly touching underlying structures* | 1 |
| In-flowing blood vessels | 1 |
| Unclear boundaries | 1 |
*Defined as ratio > 0.8, where the ratio is the maximum tumor diameter to the tumor base length that touched the underlying structure
