The Endoscopic Polypectomy in Two Cases of Colonic Lipoma.
- Author:
Ju Il PARK
1
;
In Hwan YU
;
Jae Il KIM
;
Chang Hoo LEE
;
Jung Hyup KANG
;
Hwa Young KIM
;
Sung Min HAN
;
Sang Gook HAN
;
Seok Eun KIM
;
Eung Hoon IM
;
Suk Joon PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Dae Rim St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Colon;
Lipoma;
Polypectomy;
Ileocecal valv
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Barium;
Colon*;
Colon, Descending;
Colonoscopy;
Constipation;
Diagnosis;
Diarrhea;
Dyspepsia;
Enema;
Hemorrhage;
Ileocecal Valve;
Intestinal Obstruction;
Intussusception;
Lipoma*;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
1997;17(6):855-859
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Lipomas are one of the most common benign nonepithelial tumors of the colon and which are often detected incidentally at radiologic investigation or on operation without specific symptoms, Most of them look like submucosal tumor with yellowish-white color, smooth surface and solitary lesion. Sometimes they produce symptoms with large size, bleeding, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, indigestion, intestinal obstruction and intussusception. Diagnosis can be made by colonoscopy, abdominal CT, MRI, barium enema and histologic confirmation achieves by the endoscopic polypectomy. Endoscopic polypectomy or mucosectomy can make it easy to remove them, as therapeutic method. We report 2 cases of lipomas successfully removed by endoseopic polypectomy-the one with two lipomas each at right descending colon and ileocecal valve and the other with one lipoma at the ileocecal valve-with the relevant literatures.
