학술논문
Sizzling Fat—Curative Endoscopic Resection of a Giant Lipoma Causing Colo-Colic Intussusception.
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Article
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Subject
*ENDOSCOPIC surgery
*THERAPEUTICS
*SIGMOID colon
*LIPOMA
*ABDOMINAL pain
*GASTROINTESTINAL system
*INTESTINAL intussusception
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0163-2116
Abstract
Giant colonic lipomas, tumors that infrequently occur in the gastrointestinal tract, can manifest as bleeding, abdominal pain and, in few cases, obstruction with intussusception. Surgery is usually the treatment of choice. We report the case of a 78 years-old woman with abdominal pain, constipation, and bleeding due to a giant lipoma of the sigmoid colon causing intussusception. After an initial diagnostic colonoscopy, the patient underwent an endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) without complications. Even if surgery is traditionally the primary therapeutic approach for giant colonic lipomas, selected cases can be successfully treated with EMR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]