Adult Intussusception Secondary to Colorectal Cancer in a Young Woman: A Case Report

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Denise Gambardella Adele De Caridi Orazio Trapuzzano Giuseppe Loria Vittorio Maschio Luigi Borrello Francesco Loria Manfredo Tedesco

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Denise Gambardella
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (Director Giuseppe Sammarco), University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

A B S T R A C T

Adult intussusception (AI) is uncommon condition that represents 1-5 % of intestinal obstruction and is frequently caused by an underlying disease with 70-90% of cases having a demonstrable cause based on imaging findings and surgical results. The most common causes of colonic AI are neoplasm. We report a case of right colo-colic intussusception sustained by a malignant tumor.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 12, Nov 2020
Accepted: Wed 02, Dec 2020
Published: Tue 15, Dec 2020

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© 2023 Denise Gambardella. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.GSCR.2020.02.10