Intermittent subacute intestinal obstruction due to a giant lipoma of the colon: a case report

Abstract

A case with intermittent subacute intestinal obstruction due to a giant lipoma of the colon is reported. A 57-year-old woman presented with intermittent pain in the central abdomen and clinical findings of subacute intestinal obstruction. She had had similar symptoms for the last five years. She was diagnosed to have a large polypoid lesion in the ascending colon on barium enema in 1990. However, no surgical treatment was offered to her at that time. At laparotomy, a 16 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm polypoid mass on a 3 cm long stalk in the ascending colon causing colo-colonic intussusception was seen. Subtotal colectomy was performed. Histology showed submucosal colonic lipoma.