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[|Human|] Hi, I ve just been diagnosed with an intraosseous lipoma in the femoral neck of my hip. I have been discharged and have been told I need no further MRI imaging in the future. I was just checking this was appropriate as I have read on the Internet that these lesions need periodic imaging to keep an eye on it as they pose a rare but real threat of malignant transformation?
[|AI|]  Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. In my opinion you should not worry much about cancer. Lipoma is benign soft tissue tumor mostly containing fat tissue. It is painless and harmless. Rarely it turned into malignancy, liposarcoma. But the chances of this is very, very rare. Only 0.0001%. So no need to worry much about malignancy. But, yes you should definitely get done follow up of this lesion annually by MRI. Look for size and contours of lesion in follow-up scans. But at present no need to worry much. No possibility of cancer.