An Extremely Rare Case of Colonic Leiomyoma Disguised as Pedunculated Colonic Polyp

Nguyen Pham; Elise Y Nguyen; Noam Jacob

doi:10.15403/jgld-5805

An Extremely Rare Case of Colonic Leiomyoma Disguised as Pedunculated Colonic Polyp

J Gastrointestin Liver Dis. 2024 Dec 28;33(4):453. doi: 10.15403/jgld-5805.

Authors

Nguyen Pham¹, Elise Y Nguyen², Noam Jacob³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. [email protected].
² Department of Pathology, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, USA. [email protected].
³ Department of Gastroenterology, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles; Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 39733321
DOI: 10.15403/jgld-5805

Abstract

Colonic leiomyoma is extremely rare and is endoscopically indistinguishable from gastrointestinal stromal tumor. We present a case of colonic leiomyoma disguised as a pedunculated colonic polyp in a 62-year-old male who underwent surveillance colonoscopy.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Biopsy
Colonic Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Colonic Neoplasms* / pathology
Colonic Neoplasms* / surgery
Colonic Polyps* / pathology
Colonic Polyps* / surgery
Colonoscopy*
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Leiomyoma* / diagnostic imaging
Leiomyoma* / pathology
Leiomyoma* / surgery
Male
Middle Aged
Predictive Value of Tests