Adult intestinal intussusception — A report of 2 cases and literature review

✍ Scribed by Habib, Khalid ;Jacob, George

• Book ID: 121560393
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 801 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 2391-5463
• DOI: 10.2478/s11536-013-0247-5

✦ Synopsis

Every five years or so a case of adult small bowel intussusception secondary to pathologies such as inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP) appears in English literature. Likewise rare cases of adult colonic intussusception due to a tumour have been reported including, more recently, their successful management by laparoscopic approach. We describe two such cases, one each of small bowel and large bowel intussusception, due to IFP and caecal tumour respectively and discuss their management. We also suggest role of combined laparoscopy/endoscopy in selected cases of colonic resections.