An Adult Patient with an Acute Abdomen Caused by Strangulated Intestinal Duplication

Intestinal Obstruction Caused by Ileocolic and Colocolic Intussusception in an Adult Patient with Cecal Lipoma

Introduction. Intussusception is a rare clinical entity in adults (<1% of intestinal obstructions). Colonic intussusception is even rarer, particularly when caused by lipomas. Case Presentation. A 47-year-old woman presented to our emergency department complaining of abdominal pain with vomiting and diarrhoea. X-ray and CT showed bowel obstruction due to ileocolonic and colocolonic intussuscept...

Adult Ileo-Ileal Intussusception Caused by Intestinal Lipoma

Adult Intestinal Intussusception Caused by an Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), which usually affects young adults and children, is a solid neoplastic mesenchymal proliferation composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells admixed with inflammatory infiltrates. Numerous extrapulmonary sites of these tumors have been found, but intestinal IMT is rare, especially in elderly patient. Its diagnosis is recognized as difficult because the pa...

Dynamic Change of Intestinal Duplication in an Adult Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review

Intestinal duplication in an adult is an uncommon congenital abnormality because only minority of cases present in adulthood. More than 80% of cases occur before the age of two years as an acute abdomen, bowel obstruction or other complications associated with it. Duplication has two types, either cystic or tubular. Here, we report a case of an adult who was diagnosed preoperatively on CT scan ...

Cytopenia caused by parvovirus in an adult ALL patient.

A young woman in maintenance therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in second complete remission developed fever and a skin rash associated with severe anemia, neutropenia and erythroblastopenia. A complete recovery was obtained in 4 weeks' time after red cell transfusion, i.v. immunoglobulin and withdrawal of the maintenance chemotherapy. Parvovirus B19 infection was demonstrated by detectio...