Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review

Associated midgut malrotation and colon cancer in adult patients is extremely rare and associated with delayed diagnosis and increased morbidity. We present the case of a patient with a three-week history of weakness, diarrhea, and abdominal pain with invagination of the distal ileum. Exploratory la...

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Autores principales: Taha, Anas, Aniukstyte, Laura, Enodien, Bassey, Staartjes, Victor, Taha-Mehlitz, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816035
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13637
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author Taha, Anas
Aniukstyte, Laura
Enodien, Bassey
Staartjes, Victor
Taha-Mehlitz, Stephanie
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description Associated midgut malrotation and colon cancer in adult patients is extremely rare and associated with delayed diagnosis and increased morbidity. We present the case of a patient with a three-week history of weakness, diarrhea, and abdominal pain with invagination of the distal ileum. Exploratory laparotomy with ileocecal resection revealed invagination, malrotation, and cecal adenocarcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-80116292021-04-02 Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review Taha, Anas Aniukstyte, Laura Enodien, Bassey Staartjes, Victor Taha-Mehlitz, Stephanie Cureus Gastroenterology Associated midgut malrotation and colon cancer in adult patients is extremely rare and associated with delayed diagnosis and increased morbidity. We present the case of a patient with a three-week history of weakness, diarrhea, and abdominal pain with invagination of the distal ileum. Exploratory laparotomy with ileocecal resection revealed invagination, malrotation, and cecal adenocarcinoma. Cureus 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8011629/ /pubmed/33816035 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13637 Text en Copyright © 2021, Taha et al. 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Taha, Anas
Aniukstyte, Laura
Enodien, Bassey
Staartjes, Victor
Taha-Mehlitz, Stephanie
Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Intestinal Malrotation Associated With Invagination of the Distal Ileum and Cancer of the Cecum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort intestinal malrotation associated with invagination of the distal ileum and cancer of the cecum: a case report and literature review
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816035
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13637
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