title: Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumour presenting as small bowel volvulus: a rare disease with a rare presentation.
abstract: A 78-year-old Chinese woman presented with recurrent postprandial abdominal pain. Computerised tomography revealed a small bowel tumour causing volvulus of a segment of the small bowel. Laparotomy confirmed an extraluminal ileal tumour with partial volvulus of the involved small bowel segment. Small bowel resection was done. Histological and ultrastructural studies confirmed a gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumour. We review the medical literature on this rare tumour.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: To
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D017154:Stromal Cells; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed