Ileocolic Intussusception Due to Endometriosis

Intussusception is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults. Clinical manifestations are not specific, making the preoperative diagnosis difficult to establish. We report a case of acute small-bowel obstruction due to ileocolic intussusception. An emergency explorative laparoscopy was performed a...

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Autores principales: Koutsourelakis, Ioannis, Markakis, Haris, Koulas, Spiros, Mparmpantonakis, Nikolaos, Perraki, Eleni, Christodoulou, Kallinikos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2007
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17651575
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Sumario:Intussusception is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults. Clinical manifestations are not specific, making the preoperative diagnosis difficult to establish. We report a case of acute small-bowel obstruction due to ileocolic intussusception. An emergency explorative laparoscopy was performed and revealed a mass in the right colon proximal to the ileocecal valve. Conversion to open laparotomy allowed us to perform a right hemicolectomy. The pathologic examination of the resected sample revealed endometriosis of the terminal ileus.

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