Acute Adult Jejuno-Jejunal Intussusception Caused by a Giant Lipoma

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Paolo Aonzo Michela Ceriotti Antonio Fernando Anania Matteo Morena Paola Brignone Alberto Serventi

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Paolo Aonzo
Department of Surgery, Mons. Giovanni Galliano Hospital, ASL Alessandria, Acqui Terme (AL), Italy

A B S T R A C T

Acute abdominal pain secondary to intussusception is rare in adults and mainly caused by malignancy (70-90%), whereas in childhood intussusception’s etiology is mostly idiopathic (90% of cases). Gastrointestinal lipomas, especially in small bowel, represent an unusual cause of intussusception with complete intestinal obstruction or bleeding (acute or chronic) from mucosal ulceration. In acute settings, computed tomography (CT) should be confidently considered the gold standard for diagnosis. In adulthood, surgical management of acute symptomatic intussusception caused by lipoma is mandatory. We report a case of complete jejunal obstruction with intussusception due to 5 cm submucosal lipoma.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 05, Feb 2021
Accepted: Fri 19, Feb 2021
Published: Fri 05, Mar 2021

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© 2023 Paolo Aonzo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2021.03.03