title: Multislice CT in adult colocolic intussusception: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. frank.floemer@t-online.de
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Floemer
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bissig
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oertli
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bongartz
authors.forename: Christian T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Hamel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007443:Intussusception / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*