Multislice CT in adult colocolic intussusception: case report and review of the literature.
Intussusception in adults is generally a rare diagnosis and generally different from intussusception in children in terms of clinical presentation, etiology, and incidence (Begos et al., Am J Surg, 173:88-94, 1997; Watson and Bisset, Clin Radiol, 49:723-726, 1994; Felix et al., Am J Surg, 131:723-726, 1976). One third of these affect the large bowel. Adult intussusception shows clinically uncharacteristic symptoms of bowel obstruction; thus, the diagnosis is often clinically missed. We report the case of a 39-year-old woman suffering from long-term abdominal pain. This case report discusses the clinical advantages of multislice computed tomography for the diagnosis of adult intussusception and shows a comprehensive overview of the literature.
Floemer
Frank
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Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. frank.floemer@t-online.de
Bissig
Heidi
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Oertli
Daniel
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Bongartz
Georg
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Hamel
Christian T
CT
D000328:Adult; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007443:Intussusception / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*