Management of Tonsillar Lipoma: Is Tonsillectomy Essential?

Table 1

Summary of tonsillar lipoma case reports including patient demographics, clinical features, and specimen information.

Author	Patient information			Specimen information
	Age	Sex	Symptoms	Size (cm)	Side	Site	Histology
Theisen (1903) [2]	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Theisen (1903) [2]	8	F	Cough	0.7	R	Tonsil	Lipoma
New and Childrey (1931) [3]	NA	NA	Incidental	1.5 cm	R	Tonsillar fossa	Lipoma
Galetti (1959) [4]	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Lipoma
Douglas (1961) [5]	55	M	Incidental	2×0.8	R	Tonsil	Fibrolipoma
Amendolea (1968) [6]	NA	M	Incidental	NA	NA	Tonsil	Fibrolipoma
Nizze (1974) [7]	NA	NA	Incidental	NA	L	Tonsil	Fibrolipoma
Krausen et al. (1986) [8]	NA	NA	NA	NA	R	Tonsil	Angiofibrolipoma
Begin and Frenkiel (1993) [9]	42	F	Incidental	NA	L	Tonsil	Lipoma
Tsunoda (1994) [10]	58	F	Oral mass	4×3×3	L	Peritonsillar Space	Lipoma
Benson-Mitchell et al. (1994) [11]	83	M	Incidental	6.5×2.5×1.4	L	Tonsil	Lipoma
Harada et al. (1995) [12]	44	F	Incidental	1.6×1.5×1.3	R	Tonsil	Lipoma
Gentile et al. (1996) [13]	72	M	Incidental	NA	NA	Tonsil	Spindle cell Lipoma
Sarma and Ramesh (1996) [14]	35	F	Incidental	1.2×1.0×0.8	L	Tonsil	Lipoma
M. R. Juvekar and R. V. Juvekar (2000) [15]	55	M	Dysphagia and inability to speak	13×1.5	R	Inferior pole	Myxoidn Lipoma
Halaas et al. (2001) [16]	65	M	Foreign body sensation	6.0×2.5×2.5	R	Inferior pole	Chondro lipoma
Bandéca et al. (2007) [17]	11	F	Incidental	NA	NA	Tonsil	Lipoma
Dereköy et al. (2007) [18]	63	F	Dyspnoea	3.6×3.2×2.2	R	Tonsil	Lipoma
Wang et al. (2007) [19]	46	F	Foreign body sensation	1×0.4×0.2	L	Tonsil	Lipoma
Martin et al. (2009) [20]	39	M	Cough	5×3×2	L	Tonsil	Fibrolipoma
Nandakumar et al. (2010) [21]	69	M	Foreign body sensation	3×1	L	Tonsil	Fibrolipoma
Sameh et al. (2012) [22]	62	F	Foreign body sensation and fever	1×0.5	R	Tonsil	Lipoma
Sameh et al. (2012) [22]	19	M	Angina	1.7×0.9	R	Tonsil	Lipoma

NA: not available.