Intussusception in the adult

Invaginación intestinal en el adulto

Sáez, Hugo - Fronzutti, Agustín - Melognio, Silvio - Mesa, Guillermo

Resumen:

Three observations of intestinal intussusception in adults are reported; two of them were purely enterical and one was ileocolic. Ali of them -as it is most often seen in adults- were secondary to tumors of the small bowel: a submucous lipoma, a leiomyoma and a carcinod tumor. The rarity of the disease is remarked. Diagnosis is seldom performed in the preoperative stage. The treatment is surgical; intestinal resection is almost always required, either due to the importance of the lesions of the invaginated loop, or because reduction cannot be achieved, or because it is not possible to discard a malignant lesion.


Se presentan 3 observaciones de invaginación intestinal en el adulto, dos entéricas puras y una ileocólica. Todas ellas -como sucede casi siempre en el adulto- eran secundarias a tumores de delgado: un lipoma submucoso, un leiomioma y un tumor carcinoide. Se destaca la rareza de 1a afección, cuyo diagnóstico rara vez se hace en la etapa preoperatoria. El tratauúento es quirúrgico, debiéndose casi siempre recurrir a la resección intestinal, por la magnitud de las lesiones del asa invaginada, por no poderse lograr la reducción o por la imposibilidad de descartar una lesión maligna.


Detalles Bibliográficos
1975
intususcepción
etiología
neoplasias intestinales
complicaciones
intussusception
etiology
intestinal neoplasms
complications
Español
Sociedad de Cirugía del Uruguay
Revista Cirugía del Uruguay
https://revista.scu.org.uy/index.php/cir_urug/article/view/2583
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Resumen:
Sumario:Three observations of intestinal intussusception in adults are reported; two of them were purely enterical and one was ileocolic. Ali of them -as it is most often seen in adults- were secondary to tumors of the small bowel: a submucous lipoma, a leiomyoma and a carcinod tumor. The rarity of the disease is remarked. Diagnosis is seldom performed in the preoperative stage. The treatment is surgical; intestinal resection is almost always required, either due to the importance of the lesions of the invaginated loop, or because reduction cannot be achieved, or because it is not possible to discard a malignant lesion.