Open AccessLaparoscopic management of small-bowel intussusception in a 64-year-old female with ileoal lipomas
Author(s) -
Yi-Chung Hou
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-9366
DOI - 10.4240/wjgs.v4.i9.220
Subject(s) - medicine , intussusception (medical disorder) , invagination , vomiting , abdomen , surgery , abdominal pain , ultrasonography , laparoscopic surgery , abdominal mass , computed tomography , laparoscopy , radiology
A 64-year-old female patient presented with upper abdominal pain and vomiting. Ultrasonography showed a hyperechoic mass in the right lower abdomen and computed tomography showed a low-density mass with intestinal invagination. An emergency laparoscopic right-hemicolectomy was performed, and the resected specimen was found to contain three tumors, which were identified histopathologically as intestinal lipomas. Adult intussusception is relatively rare and difficult to be diagnosed, since most symptoms of adult intussusception are nonspecific. We report our clinical experience of the diagnosis and emergent laparoscopic surgery for an adult patient with intussusception.