A RARE CASE OF GASTRIC LIPOMA

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  • HOSSEIN FOROUTAN From the Department of Gastroenterology, Imam Khomeini Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract:

A middle age woman was hospitalized for investigation of a mobile filling defect in the stomach with exacerbation of 3-year gastric symptoms. Gastroscopy revealed a huge pedunculated polyp. Histologic report of the mass was gastric antral lipoma. Since the patient refused surgery, cauterization polypectomy was performed without any complication.

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volume 6  issue 4

pages  309- 310

publication date 1993-02

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