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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Sep 2016
Case Reports[Torsion of a preperitoneal pedunculated lipoma of anterior abdominal wall mimicking acute appendicitis].
- İbrahim Ali Özemir, Kıvılcım Orhun, Çağrı Bilgiç, Tunç Eren, Barış Bayraktar, Ebru Zemheri, Özgür Ekinci, and Orhan Alimoğlu.
- Department of General Surgery, İstanbul Medeniyet University, Göztepe Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey. draliozemir@hotmail.com.
- Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2016 Sep 1; 22 (5): 502-504.
AbstractLipoma is the most common benign tumor of adipose tissue. Lipomas can occur almost anywhere in the body, but are rarely found in parietal peritoneum of abdominal wall. Occasionally lipomas are detected incidentally during abdominal surgery for other organ pathologies. Presently described is rare case of torsion of pedunculated lipoma originating in parietal peritoneum of anterior abdominal wall causing abdominal pain that mimicked acute appendicitis in 35-year-old woman.
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