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[Intestinal occlusion due to a giant lipoma of the cecum]
G Balducci1, T Bocchetti, S Petrocca
1Istituto di I Clinica Chirurgica, Universtà degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma.
Il Giornale Di Chirurgia
|March 25, 2000
Abstract:
Lipomas of the colon are localised in 90% of cases at submucous level, they are usually solitary and may be sessile or pedunculated. They are almost always asymptomatic; only when they are of a certain size they become manifest, causing alterations of the alveus, rectorrhagia, abdominal pain or intestinal transit alteration. They are often discovered by chance during endoscopic or radiological examination.