Small bowel intussusception in adults

Intussusception is the telescoping of a proximal segment of the gastrointestinal tract into an adjacent distal segment. This rare form of bowel obstruction occurs infrequently in adults. We report a case of small bowel intussusception in an adult male patient. We have also performed a literature rev...

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Autores principales: Potts, J, Al Samaraee, A, El-Hakeem, A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Surgeons 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24417823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588414X13824511650579
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description Intussusception is the telescoping of a proximal segment of the gastrointestinal tract into an adjacent distal segment. This rare form of bowel obstruction occurs infrequently in adults. We report a case of small bowel intussusception in an adult male patient. We have also performed a literature review of this rare condition.
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spelling pubmed-51376622016-12-20 Small bowel intussusception in adults Potts, J Al Samaraee, A El-Hakeem, A Ann R Coll Surg Engl Review Intussusception is the telescoping of a proximal segment of the gastrointestinal tract into an adjacent distal segment. This rare form of bowel obstruction occurs infrequently in adults. We report a case of small bowel intussusception in an adult male patient. We have also performed a literature review of this rare condition. Royal College of Surgeons 2014-01 2014-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5137662/ /pubmed/24417823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588414X13824511650579 Text en Copyright © 2013 Royal College of Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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