ADULT LIPOMATOUS POLYP INTESTINAL INTUSSUSCEPTION : A RARE ENTITY

Autor: Neeraj Kumar Banoria, Om Kumar Sharma, Pandey C B
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Zdroj: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare, Vol 2, Iss 37, Pp 5985-5990 (2015)
ISSN: 2349-2570
2349-2562
Popis: Intussusception is a relatively common cause of intestinal obstruction in children but a rare, and uncommon clinical entity in adults accounting for 1%. Lipoma accounts for 4% of all benign tumors of the gut. Most of these are seen in the large intestine, usually submuco sal and around ileocecal valve. These are often asymptomatic. Though these lesions are benign, it continues to present difficulties in the preoperative differentiation between malignant and benign colonic neoplasm
Databáze: OpenAIRE