Open AccessAdult intussusception secondary to diverticular disease
Author(s) -
Habib Syed,
Labib Syed,
Umesh Parampalli,
Mokhtar Uheba
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bmj case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.231
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1757-790X
DOI - 10.1136/bcr-2018-226678
Subject(s) - medicine , invagination , diverticular disease , intussusception (medical disorder) , lumen (anatomy) , rare disease , sigmoid colon , inflammatory bowel disease , gastroenterology , surgery , radiology , disease , rectum
Intussusception is the invagination of a proximal segment of bowel into the lumen of an adjacent distal segment. It is a common condition in the paediatric age group although it rarely occurs in adults. Organic lesions in the bowel wall are the primary cause of adult intussusceptions with malignant neoplasms being the most common. However, we present a rare case of a 92-year-old man diagnosed with an intussusception of the sigmoid-rectal colon secondary to a diverticular stricture.