Open AccessAdult intussusception caused by colonic anisakis: A case report
Author(s) -
Youn I Choi,
Dong Kyun Park,
Hyun Yee Cho,
Seung Joon Choi,
JunWon Chung,
Kyung Oh Kim,
Kwang An Kwon,
Yoon Jae Kim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i17.2536
Subject(s) - medicine , colonoscopy , intussusception (medical disorder) , anisakis , transverse colon , abdominal pain , lesion , gastroenterology , endoscopy , pathological , forceps , colorectal cancer , radiology , surgery , cancer , fishery , biology , fish <actinopterygii>
Colo-colonic intussusception is an uncommon phenomenon in an adult. Adult intussusception accounts for < 5% of total cases, and the colo-colonic type is < 30% of cases. Although surgical management has been the treatment of choice for intestinal intussusception in adults, because most frequent causes for adult intussusception are malignant in origin, the importance of the roles of preoperative colonoscopic evaluation has recently been emerging.