"Twist & slide" bowel obstruction: two different rare causes of adult bowel obstruction in the same patient.
A man, age 68, presented with two rare clinical entities of adult bowel obstruction. This case showed a caecocolic intussusception (due to a caecal malignant lesion) with a small bowel volvulus secondarily. These are rare but potential life-threatening surgical emergencies.
De Raet
J
J
Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, St. Nikolaus-Hospital, Eupen, Belgium.
Brugman
T
T
Geukens
A
A
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D000368:Aged; D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D045822:Intestinal Volvulus / Q000150:complications*; D007443:Intussusception / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male