Lipoma is relatively common in the colon but is less common in the small intestine, and most are incidentally detected at endoscopy and are usually small and asymptomatic, according to the article. Surgical resection is commonly recommended to remove such significant lipomas with a limited pedicle and larger than 2 cm in size, as endoscopic resection may result in unfavorable complications such as intestinal perforations.
Surgeons used the modified ESD procedure in combination with endoscopic unroofing technique (from the top to the bottom like peeling a banana) to remove the ileal lipoma, according to the article.
Read the WJG’s release about the large ileal lipoma article.
Read the abstract for “Peeling a giant ileal lipoma with endoscopic unroofing and submucosal dissection.”
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