Large bowel obstruction caused by a submucosal colonic lipoma: not all lipomas are trouble free

Colin C M Choi¹, Yasser Arafat^{1

2}, Maryam Shamassi³, Jin Cho¹, Justin M C Yeung^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Surgery, Western Precinct, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Anatomical Pathology, Western Health (Dorevitch Pathology), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Case Reports

Colin C M Choi et al. ANZ J Surg. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun;93(6):1719-1720.

doi: 10.1111/ans.18315. Epub 2023 Feb 11.

Colin C M Choi¹, Yasser Arafat^{1

2}, Maryam Shamassi³, Jin Cho¹, Justin M C Yeung^{1

2}

¹ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Surgery, Western Precinct, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Anatomical Pathology, Western Health (Dorevitch Pathology), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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