Abstract

GONZALEZ, Celso et al. Lipoma gástrico sintomático resecado endoscópicamente, papel del ultrasonido endoscópico: Reporte de un caso. Gen [online]. 2010, vol.64, n.4, pp.359-362. ISSN 0016-3503.

Gastric lipomas represent 5% of gastrointestinal lipomas, and between 1-3% of benign gastric tumors. They use to be asymptomatic and incidentally found, or may be manifested in different manners, presenting even dyspepsia and abdominal pain and up to digestive hemorrhage and intussusception. Gastroscopy, CT, and endosonography are useful for diagnosing these lipomas. In case of existing symptoms, surgical or endoscopic enucleation of the lesion might be considered. The case presented here is of a 39-year old female with a gastric lipoma that was endosonography-assessed and an endoscopic resection was performed.

Keywords : Gastric lipoma; endosonography; echoendoscopy; submucosal endoscopic resection.