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Case Reports
. 2019 Feb 18:7:2050313X19830477.
doi: 10.1177/2050313X19830477. eCollection 2019.

Symptomatic colonic lipomas: Report of two cases and a review of the literature

Konstantinos Sapalidis  1 , Stella Laskou  1 , Christoforos Kosmidis  1 , Ioannis Passos  1 , Stelios Mantalobas  1 , Nikolaos Michalopoulos  1 , Vyron Alexandrou  1 , George Koimtzis  1 , Charilaos Koulouris  1 , Athanasios Katsaounis  1 , Aikaterini Amaniti  2 , Efstathios Pavlidis  1 , Paul Zarogoulidis  3   4 , Isaak Kesisoglou  1
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Case Reports

Symptomatic colonic lipomas: Report of two cases and a review of the literature

Konstantinos Sapalidis et al. SAGE Open Med Case Rep. .

Abstract

Colonic lipomas are the second most common benign tumor of the colon. During a systematic literature search, a lack of review is observed. This study reports two cases of colonic lipomas and also tries to review the clinical and pathologic features of the reported symptomatic lipomas.

Keywords: Colonic lipomas; benign tumor; colon.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(a) CT of the abdomen, (b) image from the lipoma during endoscopy, and (c) pathology image from the lipoma.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
(a) CT of the abdomen, (b) image from the lipoma during endoscopy, and (c) pathology image from the lipoma.
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