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Submucosal Lipoma: a Rare Cause of Recurrent Intestinal Obstruction and Intestinal Intussusception

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Intestinal lipomas are rare nonepithelial tumors that are usually detected incidentally. They are usually asymptomatic, but lipomas larger than 2 cm may become symptomatic due to obstruction, bleeding, or intussusception. Adult intussusception due to intestinal lipoma is a very rare condition. In this paper, we report a case of small bowel lipoma that became symptomatic due to intermittent obstruction episodes and ileo-ileal intussuception. Segmental ileal resection was performed, and histopathological examination of the resected specimen confirmed the diagnosis of lipoma.

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This work was supported by the grants from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2013 M540555 and 2014 T70649) and Major Program of Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. ZR2014HZ002).

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, 107 West Wen Hua Road, Jinan, 250012, China

    Run-De Jiang, Xu-Ting Zhi, Bo Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Chen & Tao Li

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Jiang, RD., Zhi, XT., Zhang, B. et al. Submucosal Lipoma: a Rare Cause of Recurrent Intestinal Obstruction and Intestinal Intussusception. J Gastrointest Surg 19, 1733–1735 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-015-2824-1

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