Abstract: The implementation of surgical procedures in the Basic Health Unit is recommended and described in the literature. However, such practice has been less and less applied in primary care. In a context of overcrowding of tertiary hospitals and consequent inoperability of elective surgical procedures it is of utmost importance and resolutivity carrying out these procedures in the Family Clinic/Basic Health Unit. In this article, we present a case of a patient who underwent excision of a crippling giant lipoma in the left popliteal fossa, with 12 ye...
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