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Case Report of a Case

EUGENE J. CORNETT, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;75(2):293-295.

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Benign tumors of the stomach are unusual, constituting from 0.5% to 5% of all gastric tumors.^{4,7,8,10,15,22} Finesilver¹¹ reported finding an average of one benign gastric tumor per 7200 roentgen examinations of the stomach. Root¹⁹ found 17 benign gastric tumors in 250,000 hospital admissions, an incidence of 11 per 14,705 admissions. Thompson and Oyster²² found 66 benign gastric tumors in 20,000 autopsies. Lipomas constitute 2% to 5% of all benign gastric tumors,^8,9,15,22 and several large hospitals have no record of this lesion occurring in their files.

Rumold,²⁰ in 1941, collected all reported cases of lipoma of the stomach since 1835 and added 1 of his own, bringing the total to 33. In 1946, Scott and Brunschwig²¹ added 5 cases from the literature and 1 of their own, bringing the total to 39. Falla Alvarez² collected 4 more from the literature and added 1 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Tampa, Fla.

Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 27, 1957.

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