Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report

Colonic lipomas are rare nonepithelial tumors that are usually detected incidentally during surgery or colonoscopy. Although lipomas generally remain asymptomatic, when they exceed 2 cm of diameter they may cause abdominal pain, obstruction, or intussusception. Here we present a case of an elderly w...

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Autores principales: Kastanakis, Miltiades, Anyfantakis, Dimitrios, Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K., Katsougris, Nikolaos, Papadomichelakis, Alexandros, Kokkinos, Ioannis, Petrakis, George, Bobolakis, Emmanouil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23864978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/926514

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23864978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/926514

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