[Small bowel volvulus due to a giant mesenteric lipoma]. / Zavorot tonkoi kishki, obuslovlennyi gigantskoi lipomoi bryzheiki.

Mesenteric lipomas are very rare. They are asymptomatic in most cases, but some patients can develop certain complications such as small bowel volvulus and acute small bowel obstruction. We report a 78-year-old patient with giant mesenteric lipoma complicated by jejunum volvulus and acute small bowel obstruction. The patient underwent laparotomy, en-bloc resection of small bowel, mesentery and lipoma followed by side-to-side anastomosis.

[Isolated splenic metastasis from colorectal cancer]. / Izolirovannyi metastaz kolorektal'nogo raka v selezenku: klinicheskii sluchai.

Splenic metastases are a rare finding and usually associated with advanced cancer. At the same time, isolated splenic metastases are an exception. The authors report a 62-year-old woman with isolated splenic metastasis from colon carcinoma in 28 months after surgery. Splenectomy was successfully performed.