Large Pedunculated Lipoma of the Esophagus

A Case of Large Pedunculated Lipoma of the Gluteal Region

Pedunculated pleural lipoma.

A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized for dyspnea and chest pain. After radiological examinations and bronchoscopy, she was diagnosed with a stage IVsmall-cell carcinoma of the lung. Collaterally, chest CT showed an hypodense pleural sessile mass, with smooth, well defined borders and homogeneous fat attenuation of approximately –100 HU; it showed no enhancement after intravenous contrast materi...

Intramural lipoma of the esophagus.

Lipomas of the gastrointestinal tract are rare, and those of the esophagus are extremely rare. Indeed, fewer than 20 resected cases of esophageal lipoma have been reported in the literature. In the current case, a 71-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of a slight swallowing disturbance in the upper chest. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a submucosal space-occupying mass, wi...

Pedunculated obstructive lipoma of the ileocecal valve: a case report.

INTRODUCTION Colonic lipomas are relatively common but they rarely progress to complete acute obstruction. CASE OUTLINE We report a case of a 67-year-old woman with acute intestinal obstruction caused by a large pedunculated lipoma of the ileocecal valve. Preoperatively, the patient presented acutely with clinical and radiographic signs of small intestine ileus. A right hemicolectomy with sub...

Spindle cell lipoma of the esophagus.

Esophageal lipomas are benign tumors representing less than 0.5% of all gastrointestinal lipomas. They are typically detected incidentally but occasionally present with local symptoms and rarely with life-threatening complications. We describe a case of a 60-year-old man with progressive dysphagia and weight loss, who presented with several episodes of near asphyxiation secondary to regurgitati...