Ileocolic intussusception due to endometriosis.
Intussusception is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults. Clinical manifestations are not specific, making the preoperative diagnosis difficult to establish. We report a case of acute small-bowel obstruction due to ileocolic intussusception. An emergency explorative laparoscopy was performed and revealed a mass in the right colon proximal to the ileocecal valve. Conversion to open laparotomy allowed us to perform a right hemicolectomy. The pathologic examination of the resected sample revealed endometriosis of the terminal ileus.
Koutsourelakis
Ioannis
I
Department of Surgery, Corfu General Hospital, Corfu, Greece. ykoutsourelakis@yahoo.gr
Markakis
Haris
H
Koulas
Spiros
S
Mparmpantonakis
Nikolaos
N
Perraki
Eleni
E
Christodoulou
Kallinikos
K
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D007443:Intussusception / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery