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
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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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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author Kastanakis, Miltiades
Anyfantakis, Dimitrios
Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K.
Katsougris, Nikolaos
Papadomichelakis, Alexandros
Kokkinos, Ioannis
Petrakis, George
Bobolakis, Emmanouil
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Anyfantakis, Dimitrios
Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K.
Katsougris, Nikolaos
Papadomichelakis, Alexandros
Kokkinos, Ioannis
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description 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 woman referred by her general practitioner to a general hospital of Crete because of acute abdominal pain along with signs of intestinal obstruction and a positive history of appetite loss. Abdominal computed tomography was performed. To marginalise the risk of malignancy, a right hemicolectomy was performed. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen confirmed the diagnosis of cecal lipoma.
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spelling pubmed-37057422013-07-17 Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report Kastanakis, Miltiades Anyfantakis, Dimitrios Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K. Katsougris, Nikolaos Papadomichelakis, Alexandros Kokkinos, Ioannis Petrakis, George Bobolakis, Emmanouil Case Rep Surg 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 woman referred by her general practitioner to a general hospital of Crete because of acute abdominal pain along with signs of intestinal obstruction and a positive history of appetite loss. Abdominal computed tomography was performed. To marginalise the risk of malignancy, a right hemicolectomy was performed. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen confirmed the diagnosis of cecal lipoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3705742/ /pubmed/23864978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/926514 Text en Copyright © 2013 Miltiades Kastanakis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kastanakis, Miltiades
Anyfantakis, Dimitrios
Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K.
Katsougris, Nikolaos
Papadomichelakis, Alexandros
Kokkinos, Ioannis
Petrakis, George
Bobolakis, Emmanouil
Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report
title Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report
title_full Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report
title_fullStr Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report
title_short Cecal Lipoma Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report
title_sort cecal lipoma presenting as acute intestinal obstruction in an elderly woman: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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