Idiopathic Esophageal Lipomatosis: An Incidental Benign Discovery
| Autor: | Deepthi Devagudi, Venkata Vinod Kumar Matli, Uma K. Murthy, Brian Cooney |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Esophageal Lipoma Lipomatosis Single Case Gastroenterology RC799-869 Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology medicine.disease Dysphagia Asymptomatic Incidental findings Pulmonary embolism Esophageal dilatation Medicine Radiology medicine.symptom Esophageal adiposis Esophageal lipoma business Odynophagia Computed tomography Computed tomography angiography Gastrointestinal lipoma |
| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Gastroenterology Case Reports in Gastroenterology, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 856-860 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1662-0631 |
| Popis: | Gastrointestinal (GI) lipomatosis has been reported in the GI medicine literature, but esophageal lipomatosis has never been reported at all. We report the case of an 86-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities who was admitted to our hospital for community-acquired pneumonia. Computed tomography angiography of his pulmonary arteries ruled out the possibility of pulmonary embolism but showed a 9-mm circumferential wall thickening in the proximal esophagus measuring −172 HU, which is similar in opacity to the adipose tissue. The patient was asymptomatic and without any current or prior symptoms of dysphagia or odynophagia. The barium esophagogram was unremarkable; there were no strictures, masses, or mucosal abnormalities. There was no evidence of esophageal dilatation on either imaging modality. Esophageal lipomatosis is only described in a few case reports in the radiological literature and, to our knowledge, has not been reported in the GI literature at all. It is important to highlight in the GI literature this as a benign entity that does not cause symptoms and typically does not warrant invasive diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. |
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