title: Intussusception secondary to a solitary peritoneal lung metastasis.
abstract: We report a 77-year-old woman, newly diagnosed with a malignant lung neoplasm of indeterminate nature who presented with profuse bilious vomiting without abdominal distension, pain or constipation. CT confirmed proximal small bowel obstruction. Laparotomy found a large area of intussusception from an intraluminal mass in the small bowel, which was resected and a primary anastomosis performed. Histology reported the mass as metastatic non-small-cell carcinoma and brought clarity to the primary tumour diagnosis. The patient made a good recovery from the operation, but unfortunately died a few months later from complications of her metastatic disease.
authors.affiliation: QEQM Hospital, Margate, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wou
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sharp
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007443:Intussusception / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed