INTERMITTENT SUBACUTE INTESTINAL-OBSTRUCTION DUE TO A GIANT LIPOMA OFTHE COLON - A CASE-REPORT

A case with intermittent subacute intestinal obstruction due to a gian t lipoma of the colon is reported. A 57-year-old woman presented with intermittent pain in the central abdomen and clinical findings of suba cute intestinal obstruction. She had had similar symptoms for the last five years. She was diagnosed to have a large polypoid lesion in the ascending colon on barium enema in 1990. However, mo surgical treatmen t was offered to her at that time. At laparotomy, a 16 cm x 11 cm x 1 ern polypoid mass on a 3 cm long stalk in the ascending colon causing colo-colonic intussusception was seen. Subtotal colectomy was performe d. Histology showed submucosal colonic lipoma.