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Case Reports
. 2011 Oct;36(5):545-7.
doi: 10.1007/s00261-010-9668-7.

Giant rectal lipoma

Richa Arora  1 , Atin Kumar, Virender Bansal
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Case Reports

Giant rectal lipoma

Richa Arora et al. Abdom Imaging. 2011 Oct.

Abstract

Colonic lipomas are rare benign tumors usually occurring in the ascending colon. We present here a case of giant rectal lipoma measuring 11.5 cm in size with review of the literature. To the best of our knowledge, colonic lipoma exceeding 8.5 cm in size has not been reported previously.

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