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

Konstantinos Sapalidis; Stella Laskou; Christoforos Kosmidis; Ioannis Passos; Stelios Mantalobas; Nikolaos Michalopoulos; Vyron Alexandrou; George Koimtzis; Charilaos Koulouris; Athanasios Katsaounis; Aikaterini Amaniti; Efstathios Pavlidis; Paul Zarogoulidis; Isaak Kesisoglou

doi:10.1177/2050313X19830477

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

SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2019 Feb 18:7:2050313X19830477. doi: 10.1177/2050313X19830477. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ 3rd Department of Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
² Department of Anesthesiology, AHEPA University Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴ Pulmonary Department-Oncology Unit, Theagenio Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports