Case Report
Year: 2020 | Month: March | Volume: 10 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 197-200
Giant Gastric Lipoma Mimicking Well Differentiated Liposarcoma
Sameer Ahmed A.H Ansari1, Khalid Ahmed Al Sindi2, Maryam Adam Mohamed Ali3, Khalifa Al-Doseri3, Ahmed I. Jawad4
1Senior Registrar, 2Consultant Histopathologist, 3Senior House Officer,
Department of Pathology, King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain.
4Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Ibn al Nafees Hospital, Bahrain
Corresponding Author: Sameer Ahmed A.H Ansari
ABSTRACT
Gastric lipomas are rare benign mesenchymal tumors comprising of only 1- 3% of benign stomach tumors and are usually discovered incidentally. Mostly gastric lipomas are small in size usually less than 2.7 cm and are asymptomatic. However, rarely it becomes large and symptomatic. Gastric lipoma is at times, extremely difficult to differentiate on histopathology from well differentiated liposarcoma as they share many similar features. Immunohistochemistry for Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and Mouse double minute 2 homolog (MDM2) genes are thus indicated for a definitive diagnosis. We present a case report of a large 11 cm giant gastric lipoma in a 72 years old male.
Key words: lipoma, tumor, benign, stomach.