Intussusception of the small bowel secondary to malignant metastases in two 80-year-old people: a case series

INTRODUCTION: Small bowel intussusception is rare in adults and accounts for one percent of all bowel obstructions. Malignancy is the etiologic agent in approximately 50 percent of all cases. CASE PRESENTATION: Our first patient was an 80-year-old Caucasian woman with signs and symptoms of intermitt...

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Autores principales: Spiridis, Charalambos, Kambaroudis, Apostolos, Ntinas, Achilleas, Papadopoulos, Savvas, Papanicolaou, Athanasios, Gerasimidis, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-176

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