title: Unroofing Technique as an Option for the Endoscopic Treatment of Giant Gastrointestinal Lipomas.
abstract: Gastrointestinal lipomas are usually asymptomatic, detected incidentally. However, they can cause severe symptoms such as obstruction, invagination, and bleeding. The transsection of an infarcted or large lipoma by needle sphincterotome (needle knife) and/or snare polypectomy of the upper part of the tumour is an option for the endoscopy treatment of giant infarcted lipomas. Cutting a top of lipoma (unroofing technique) allowed flow out of adipose tissue from the lipoma.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. marcela.kopacova@fnhk.cz.
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kopáčová
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Stanislav
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rejchrt
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bureš
mesh_terms: D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D047368:Tumor Burden
keywords: Endoscopy; Giant gastrointestinal lipoma; Needle sphicterotome; Unroofing technique