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. 2015:2015:123723.
doi: 10.1155/2015/123723. Epub 2015 Jun 4.

Familial Abdominal and Intestinal Lipomatosis Presenting with Upper GI Bleeding

Yilmaz Bilgic  1 , Hasan Baki Altinsoy  2 , Nezahat Yildirim  3 , Ozkan Alatas  2 , Burhan Hakan Kanat  4 , Abdurrahman Sahin  5
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Familial Abdominal and Intestinal Lipomatosis Presenting with Upper GI Bleeding

Yilmaz Bilgic et al. Case Rep Gastrointest Med. 2015.

Abstract

Although lipomas are encapsulated benign tumors, systemic lipomatosis defines infiltrative nonencapsulated tumors resembling normal adipose tissue. Abdominal lipomatosis and intestinal lipomatosis are different clinicopathological entities with similar clinical symptoms. We describe here a case presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from eroded submucosal lipoma at duodenum secondary to intestinal lipomatosis and abdominal lipomatosis.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Endoscopic view of submucosal lesions: (a) fundus at retroflection position, (b) antrum and pylorus, (c) bulb and bleeding submucosal lesion, and (d) second part of duodenum.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Coronal T2 weighted MR imaging of diffuse abdominal lipomatosis, luminal narrowing at distal part of stomach and bulb secondary to diffuse lipomatosis and antral submucosal lipoma with deplased intestinal loops.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Axial T2 weighted MR imaging of abdominal cavity with diffuse abdominal lipomatosis, luminal obliteration of antrum and distal part of corpus due to lipoma and clustered intestinal loops at the right upper part of intestinal cavity.
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Figure 4
Coronal T2 weighted MR imaging with diffuse abdominal lipomatosis of the father of index case.
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