Intestinal Lipomatosis in an Adult- A Rare Case Report

Abstract

Intestinal lipomatosis is a rare disease. There is diffuse, unencapsulated, multifocal infiltration of mature adipose tissue into the intestinal submucosal or subserosal layers. The disease may remain asymptomatic or present with complications like intussusception, obstruction, bleeding or perforation. Hereby the authors report a case of a 46-year-old male patient who presented with acute abdomen to the emergency department of the hospital. An emergency preoperative workup of the patient was performed including Computed Tomography (CT) which showed a sealed caecal perforation. Following which the patient was subjected to emergency laparotomy and right hemicolectomy. The histopathology specimen was intensively studied and the cause for the sealed caecal perforation was confirmed to be due to intestinal lipomatosis.