title: Surgery for symptomatic colon lipoma: a systematic review of the literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Isolated colon lipomas are rare benign tumors. We herein conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify clinical characteristic, diagnostic and treatment options.
  
  
  METHODS
  A search for relevant studies was conducted in Scopus, Embase and Medline databases until the end of May 2014. The search terms were "colonic lipoma and colon lipoma". Articles were included if they had information on symptoms, lipoma characteristics and type of procedure performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  88 articles describing 184 patients affected with colonic lipomas were found. One hundred and twenty-seven patients were selected for further analysis. The most common signs included abdominal pain, rectal bleeding and alteration in bowel habits. Colonic lipomas were frequently localized in the right colon (50%). The majority of patients had open surgery, whereas current treatment is laparoscopic resection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopic surgery is the current standard-of-treatment of symptomatic colonic lipomas greater than 2 cm in diameter or when malignancy can not be preoperatively excluded.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy danielecrocetti@hotmail.it.
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Crocetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sapienza
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Sterpetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Annalisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paliotta
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonietta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: DE Gori
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pedullà
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery "Pietro Valdoni", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de Toma
mesh_terms: D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
keywords: Colonic lipoma; endoscopy; review; surgery