Gastric lipoma successfully treated by endoscopic unroofing

Abstract

A 64‐year‐old Japanese man was diagnosed with a tumor of the stomach. From the findings of an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, computed tomography scan and endoscopic ultrasonography, the tumor was suggestive of a gastric lipoma. He was successfully treated by an endoscopic unroofing technique. There remained residual tumor just after unroofing, but it disappeared a month later. There remained only a scar and there has been no recurrence.