Clinical evaluation of submucosal colonic lipomas: decision making.
Even lipomas are the most common mesenchymal benign tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, symptomatic colonic presentation is rare. Herein, we evaluated four patients suffering from various size of colonic lipomas and approached by different therapeutic modalities.
Tascilar
Oge
O
Department of Surgery, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Kozlu-Zonguldak 67600, Turkey.
Cakmak
Güldeniz Karadeniz
GK
Gün
Banu Dogan
BD
Uçan
Bülent Hamdi
BH
Balbaloglu
Hakan
H
Cesur
Ali
A
Emre
Ali Ugur
AU
Comert
Mustafa
M
Erdem
Lütfü Oktay
LO
Aydemir
Selim
S
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods