Can I read Intussusception Secondary to a Carcinoid Tumor in an Adult Patient^☆^ on EtoBox?

Intussusception Secondary to a Carcinoid Tumor in an Adult Patient^☆^ by Wiener-Carrillo, Isidoro; González-Alvarado, Carlos; Cervantes-Valladolid, Mario; Echaverry-Navarrete, Denis; Zubieta-O’Farrill, Gregorio; Gudiño-Chávez, Andrés is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Intussusception Secondary to a Carcinoid Tumor in an Adult Patient^☆^ about?

## INTRODUCTION Intussusception in adult patients represents 5% of all intussusceptions and 1–5% of bowel obstructions in adults. In contrast to pediatric patients, 90% of the time, in adults, it's caused by well-established pathologic mechanisms, such as carcinoma, polyps, diverticula, Meckel diverticula, stenosis, or benign neoplasms. Small intestine intussusceptions are more frequent, but colonic intussusceptions are caused 50% of the time by malignant neoplasms, especially adenocarcinoma. ## PRESENTATION OF CASE We present a 70-year-old woman, with no relevant familial history, who presented with a 3-day symptomatology consisting of epigastric, colic, diffuse, abdominal pain of moderate intensity, which progressed till reaching a severe intensity, also referring abdominal distension, nausea, and gastrointestinal-content vomits. ## DISCUSSION In adult patients, the exact mechanism of intussusception is unknown in 8–20% of the cases, however, secondary intussusception can occur with any lesion of the intestinal wall or any irritant factor in its lumen that alters normal peristaltic activity and that could serve as a trigger to start an intussusception of one bowel segment over an

Who reads Intussusception Secondary to a Carcinoid Tumor in an Adult Patient^☆^?

Author

Wiener-Carrillo, Isidoro; González-Alvarado, Carlos; Cervantes-Valladolid, Mario; Echaverry-Navarrete, Denis; Zubieta-O’Farrill, Gregorio; Gudiño-Chávez, Andrés

Publisher

Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; Amsterdam: Elsevier (ISSN 2210-2612)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)