Lipomas of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Weinberg, Tobias; Feldman, Maurice

doi:10.1093/ajcp/25.3.272

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“…A meta-analysis performed by Weinberg and Felman demonstrated their incidence to be only 0.2% [13], though the range varies from 0.035% to 4.4%. Lipomas of the rectum have been very infrequently reported; with extensive literature review revealing only 9 such cases being reported till date [14].…”

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Submucosal Lipoma of the Rectum Presenting as Rectal Prolapse and Appearing as Adenomatous Polyp on Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy: a Case Report and Literature Review

Chakrabarti¹

2016

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Submucosal Lipoma of the Rectum Presenting as Rectal Prolapse and Appearing as Adenomatous Polyp on Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy: a Case Report and Literature Review

Chakrabarti¹

2016

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“…Lipomas are the second most common benign tumour of the colon, with an incidence of up to 4% in autopsy series. (8) They are often discovered incidentally when a patient undergoes a radiological examination for an unrelated cause. Fig.…”

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Clinics in diagnostic imaging (172)

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Chinchure

2016

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“…The etiology remains controversial. They are thought to have the same origin as normal fat tissue, while those arising in areas where adipose tissue does not normally exist are believed to arise from embryonically misplaced adipose tissue (6). Within the gastrointestinal tract a lipoma is usually located in the submucosa, although the subserosa ma y also be involved (7) .…”

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Duodenal Lipoma - Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature

Goldberg¹,

Hamilton²,

Cherry³

et al. 1990

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

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Lipome duodenal: Rapport de deux cas et revue de la litterature RESUME: L'endoscopie diagnostique des vo les digestives supcrieu res a augmente la frcquen cc avec laquclle o n dccouvre les lipomes du duodenum en cours de pratique clinique. Bien que les lesio ns plus petites soient habitue llement de~ resultats endoscopiques secondaires qui ne son.t pas re lies aux sympto mes du patient, un diagnostic exact s'appu ie sur une demarche biopsiquc ct une evaluation histo logique. Il est possible quc les lesions plus importantes saignent ou dev iennent obstructives. Les autcurs rapportent deux cas: le premier lipo me a ere decouvert fortuitcment au cours d 'un examen effectue suite a des troubles de la mo tilite Je l'oesophage; le second, plus volumineux, sc prescntait comme une lesion expansive chez un patie nt souffrant de saigneme nt gastro intestinal.Les resulrnts pathologiques suggerent q ue le lipome ecait a l'origine de ce saignement. Le tra itement est rapidemcnt examine.

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Lipomas of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Cited by 174 publications

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Submucosal Lipoma of the Rectum Presenting as Rectal Prolapse and Appearing as Adenomatous Polyp on Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy: a Case Report and Literature Review

Submucosal Lipoma of the Rectum Presenting as Rectal Prolapse and Appearing as Adenomatous Polyp on Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy: a Case Report and Literature Review

Clinics in diagnostic imaging (172)

Duodenal Lipoma - Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature

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