Caecum lipoma: a rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

BMJ Case Rep

Department of General Surgery, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social UMAE 189, Veracruz, Mexico.

Published: September 2014

Gastrointestinal bleeding caused by benign tumours of the colon is rare. A 70-year-old woman with a significant medical history of diabetes, hypertension and ischaemic heart disease was presented in consultation with marked anaemia secondary to lower gastrointestinal bleeding with a right colonic tumour found by CT. The patient underwent a right colectomy without complications. Histopathological examination revealed a 4 cm transmural caecum lipoma with mucosal ulceration. The patient is asymptomatic without anaemia at 6 months follow-up.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173652PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2014-206526DOI Listing

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