Symptomatic Colonic Lipomas: Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature

Overview

Journal SAGE Open Med Case Rep

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2019 Mar 1

PMID 30815263

Citations 10

Authors

Konstantinos Sapalidis

Stella Laskou

Christoforos Kosmidis

Ioannis Passos

Stelios Mantalobas

Nikolaos Michalopoulos

Vyron Alexandrou

George Koimtzis

Charilaos Koulouris

Athanasios Katsaounis

Aikaterini Amaniti

Efstathios Pavlidis

Paul Zarogoulidis

Isaak Kesisoglou

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Abstract

Colonic lipomas are the second most common benign tumor of the colon. During a systematic literature search, a lack of review is observed. This study reports two cases of colonic lipomas and also tries to review the clinical and pathologic features of the reported symptomatic lipomas.

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