title: Caecum lipoma: a rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
abstract: Gastrointestinal bleeding caused by benign tumours of the colon is rare. A 70-year-old woman with a significant medical history of diabetes, hypertension and ischaemic heart disease was presented in consultation with marked anaemia secondary to lower gastrointestinal bleeding with a right colonic tumour found by CT. The patient underwent a right colectomy without complications. Histopathological examination revealed a 4 cm transmural caecum lipoma with mucosal ulceration. The patient is asymptomatic without anaemia at 6 months follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Research, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social UMAE 189, Veracruz, Mexico Department of Organ Transplantation, Hospital General de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martinez-Mier
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social UMAE 189, Veracruz, Mexico.
authors.forename: Arturo B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Bayliss
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social UMAE 189, Veracruz, Mexico.
authors.forename: Ruben
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alvarado-Arenas
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social UMAE 189, Veracruz, Mexico.
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Carrasco-Arroniz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed