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Four cases are reported. Lipomas of the colon are relatively rare. Only 254 cases were reported through May 1958. Symptoms are altogether unreliable and usually the tumors are reported as “polyps” by the roentgenologist. Experience proves that a polyp, or adenoma, bleeds more often, appears on x-ray examination as a rough, lobulated tumor that is not as dark as the defect caused by a lipoma and the surface of a lipoma is smooth. Lipomas may become large enough to produce obstruction and intussusception occurs in about one third of the cases.
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Read by title at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 15 to 17, 1959.
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Hayes, H.T., Burr, H.B. & Melton, W.T. Submucous lipoma of the colon. Dis Colon Rectum 3, 145–148 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616546
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616546