TY - JOUR AU - Mesquita, Ana AU - Vidoedo, José AU - Maia, Miguel AU - Canotilho, Rita AU - Afonso, Mariana PY - 2021/05/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS AS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF HIBERNOMA - CLINICAL CASE JF - Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery JA - Rev Port Cir Cardiotorac Vasc VL - 26 IS - 1 SE - Clinical Cases DO - 10.48729/pjctvs.155 UR - https://pjctvs.com/index.php/journal/article/view/155 SP - 63-65 AB - <p>We present a 36 year-old female patient with a popliteo-femoral deep vein thrombosis whose further workup revealed a thigh tumor later diagnosed as hibernoma. Hibernoma is a very rare benign tumor stemming from vestigial remnants of fetal brown adipose cells, usually disclosed as a slow and painless growing, mass. It is impossible to distinguish it on clinical grounds from the more aggressive and ominous liposarcoma.</p> ER -