A Case of Chronic Idiopathic Pseudo-Obstruction Caused by a Degenerative.
- Author:
Jin Ah KIM
1
;
Je Hyung KIM
;
Ho Geun HWANG
;
Sun Ho AHN
Author Information
1. Departments of Surgery, Medicine, School of Medicine, Won Kwang University, Iksan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Chronic Idiopathic Pseudo-Obstruction(CIIP)
- MeSH:
Colon;
Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction;
Myenteric Plexus;
Recurrence
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology
1997;13(4):637-642
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is characterized by symptoms and signs of mechanical bowel obstruction in the abscence of an occluding lesion of the intestinal lumen. The chronic forms of intestinal pseudo-obstruction are separated into primary and secondary in according to the underlying disorders. primary or chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction(CIIP) is not associated with systemic illness and a progressive nature with relapses and remissions. Since Dyer described the rare histologic subtype of idiopathic pseudo-obstruction, the primary abnormality is in the myenteric plexus of the bowel at first in 1969, only few cases are reported. We report a case of CIIP caused by degeneration of myenteric plexus of the colon and he was successfully treated with surgical management.
