A Case Report of Small Intestinal Angiolipoma

Jun-ichi Nakamura, Kazuyasu Nakao, Satoru Miyazaki, Masaaki Nakahara, Nobuo Ogino, Toshirou Nishida, Masaaki Tsujimoto*

Department of Surgery, and Pathology*, Osaka Police Hospital

We present a rare case of small intestinal angiolipoma. A 66-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with the chief complaint of a large amount of bloody stool. Small intestinal contrast X-ray series showed a filling defect at the proximal jejunum. Partial resection of the jejunum was performed. The tumor was 6.5×3.5×3.5 cm in size, and ulceration was observed at its top. Histological examination showed increased thick-walled capillaries and typical adipose tissue and, the diagnosis was a small intestinal angiolipoma. Angiolipoma occurs in the late teens as a subcutaneous nodule. The report of angioglipoma in the digestive tract is extremely rate, and this is first report of the small intestinal angiolipoma in the world.

Key words
small intestinal tumor, angiolipoma, benign tumor

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Jun-ichi Nakamura Department of Surgery, Osaka Police Hospital
10-31 Kitayama-chou, Tennouji-ku, Osaka 543 JAPAN

Accepted
September 13, 1995

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