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Appendix Lipoma

MedGen UID:
317380
•Concept ID:
C1706830
•
Neoplastic Process
Synonym: Lipoma of appendix
SNOMED CT: Lipoma of appendix (1196823004)

Definition

A benign adipose tissue neoplasm involving the wall of the appendix. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVAppendix Lipoma

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Appendectomy in the gynecological setting: intraoperative findings and corresponding histopathology.
Shavell VI, Mahdi HM, Awonuga AO, Edelman DA, Webber JD, Gidwani RM, Husain M, Berman JM
Gynecol Obstet Invest 2011;71(3):189-92. Epub 2010 Dec 14 doi: 10.1159/000317270. PMID: 21160144
Mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix. Case report.
Sierra-Montenegro E, Sierra-Luzuriaga G, Leone-Stay G, Quiñonez-Auria C, Salazar-Menéndez V
Cir Cir 2010 May-Jun;78(3):255-8. PMID: 20642910
Extracolonic tumors of the gastrointestinal tract detected incidentally at screening CT colonography.
Pickhardt PJ, Kim DH, Taylor AJ, Gopal DV, Weber SM, Heise CP
Dis Colon Rectum 2007 Jan;50(1):56-63. doi: 10.1007/s10350-006-0806-9. PMID: 17115333
Tumoral, quasitumoral and pseudotumoral lesions of the superficial and somatic soft tissue: new entities and new variants of old entities recorded during the last 25 years. Part XII: appendix.
Bisceglia M, Spagnolo D, Galliani C, Fisher C, Suster S, Kazakov DV, Cooper K, Michal M
Pathologica 2006 Aug;98(4):239-98. PMID: 17175794
Clinical spectrum and surgical approach of adult intussusceptions: a multicentric study.
Barussaud M, Regenet N, Briennon X, de Kerviler B, Pessaux P, Kohneh-Sharhi N, Lehur PA, Hamy A, Leborgne J, le Neel JC, Mirallie E
Int J Colorectal Dis 2006 Dec;21(8):834-9. Epub 2005 Jun 11 doi: 10.1007/s00384-005-0789-3. PMID: 15951987

Diagnosis

Pseudo-submucosal tumor in the colon: seeing is believing.
Zhang DG, Lin QL, Wang L
Rev Esp Enferm Dig 2024 Mar;116(3):177-178. doi: 10.17235/reed.2023.9773/2023. PMID: 37350663
Secondary torsion of vermiform appendix with mesoappendiceal lipoma.
Grebic D, Lovasic F, Benjak I, Lovasic I
Ann Saudi Med 2015 Mar-Apr;35(2):173-5. doi: 10.5144/0256-4947.2015.173. PMID: 26336028Free PMC Article
The application of miniprobe ultrasonography in the diagnosis of colorectal subepithelial lesions.
Chen TH, Lin CJ, Wu RC, Ho YP, Hsu CM, Lin WP, Tseng YP, Chen CH, Chiu CT
Chang Gung Med J 2010 Jul-Aug;33(4):380-8. PMID: 20804667
Tumoral, quasitumoral and pseudotumoral lesions of the superficial and somatic soft tissue: new entities and new variants of old entities recorded during the last 25 years. Part XII: appendix.
Bisceglia M, Spagnolo D, Galliani C, Fisher C, Suster S, Kazakov DV, Cooper K, Michal M
Pathologica 2006 Aug;98(4):239-98. PMID: 17175794
Clinical spectrum and surgical approach of adult intussusceptions: a multicentric study.
Barussaud M, Regenet N, Briennon X, de Kerviler B, Pessaux P, Kohneh-Sharhi N, Lehur PA, Hamy A, Leborgne J, le Neel JC, Mirallie E
Int J Colorectal Dis 2006 Dec;21(8):834-9. Epub 2005 Jun 11 doi: 10.1007/s00384-005-0789-3. PMID: 15951987

Prognosis

Mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix. Case report.
Sierra-Montenegro E, Sierra-Luzuriaga G, Leone-Stay G, Quiñonez-Auria C, Salazar-Menéndez V
Cir Cir 2010 May-Jun;78(3):255-8. PMID: 20642910
Gastric lipoma and mucocele of appendix. Case history.
Ionescu G, Cardan E, Moraru F
Acta Chir Belg 1977 Sep-Oct;76(5):519-21. PMID: 919997

Clinical prediction guides

Appendicitis masquerading as tumor: a case of two diagnoses.
Marshall MT, Rosen P, Berlin R, Greenson N
J Emerg Med 2001 Nov;21(4):397-9. doi: 10.1016/s0736-4679(01)00422-x. PMID: 11728767

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