Creeping Fat

Talha Zargar; Gowhar Aziz Bhat

doi:10.33883/jms.v27i2.1370

Talha Zargar Sher-i-Kashmir institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3719-3692
Gowhar Aziz Bhat Sher - i - Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Srinagar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33883/jms.v27i2.1370

Keywords: Creeping Fat, Crohn's disease, Mesentry, Terminal Ileum

Abstract

A 63-year-old female had a history of easy fatiguability and was found to have anaemia. While being investigated for anaemia, a colonoscopy was performed which revealed ulceroproliferative growth at hepatic flexure with a biopsy suggestive of moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma. She underwent investigations for assessing fitness for surgery and staging of disease and was planned for a right extended hemicolectomy. Intraoperatively, creeping fat was observed around the terminal ileum.

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