An Adult Case of Small Bowel Intussusception Caused by Hemangioma Presenting with Intestinal Bleeding.
- Author:
Sun Young KIM
1
;
Tae Joo JEON
;
Jin Hee HONG
;
Gwang Sil KIM
;
Tae Hoon OH
;
Dong Dae SEO
;
Won Chang SHIN
;
Won Choong CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. drjtj@paik.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report ; English Abstract
- Keywords:
Adult intussusception;
Small bowel intussusception;
Hemangioma;
Bleeding
- MeSH:
Aged;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Female;
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/*etiology;
Hemangioma/*complications/pathology;
Humans;
Intestinal Neoplasms/*complications/pathology;
*Intestine, Small;
Intussusception/*diagnosis/etiology/pathology;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
2008;52(3):183-187
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Intussusception is primarily a disease of children, and is relatively rare in adults. Unlike childhood intussusception, adult intussusception has an identifiable leading lesion such as malignant or benign neoplasm. However, intussusception caused by hemangioma is very rare. There were few cases of small bowel intussusception caused by hemangioma in adults, but those reports were presented with abdominal pain. This report describes a 65-year-old female who suffered from small bowel intussusception caused by hemangioma presenting with intestinal bleeding. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy were performed, but bleeding focus was not found. Abdominal computed tomography showed the target sign of small bowel with a leading point of mass. This mass turned out to be a hemangioma after the small bowel resection. Therefore, small bowel intussusception by hemangioma should be also considered as a bleeding focus when an adult patient presented intestinal bleeding without bleeding focus in the stomach and colon. Herein we report a case of small bowel intussusception caused by hemangioma presenting with intestinal bleeding.
