JEJUNAL LIPOMATOSIS WITH DIVERTICULOSIS - REPORT OF A CASE

We herein report the very rare case of a 68-year-old Japanese man with multiple jejunal lipomatosis and diverticulosis. He was admitted to o ur hospital with the chief complaint of melena and anemia. A barium st udy of the small bowel showed multiple lipomatosis and diverticulosis. An approximately 200-cm length of the jejunum was therefore resected. Thereafter, two diverticula and 215 lipomas were recognized in the re sected specimen. A pathological examination showed mature adipose tiss ue with fibrous septa in the submucosal and muscularis propria. These findings were thus suggested to be due to the attenuation of the muscu laris propria. The complications of lipomatosis are also discussed.