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Colocolic Intussusception in an Adult Patient Secondary to Caecal Adenocarcinoma.

Hicham ELmajdoubiMarouane BaissMohamed El AbsiEl Hassan El Faricha El AlamiMohamed El OuananiEl Mahjoub EcharrabMohamed El AmraouiAbdelkader Errougani
Published in: Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine (2021)
Acute intestinal invagination is the pathology of infants and small children. Its occurrence in adults is rare, and it represents 1 to 5% of intestinal occlusions often leading to the discovery of an organic cause that may be tumor. We report the case of a 72-year-old patient admitted to the emergency room of Ibn Sina Rabat, Morocco, for intestinal occlusion. The abdominal CT scan showed a voluminous intestinal invagination on a very probable heterogeneous digestive mass. The treatment was an open right hemicolectomy. The histopathological examination of the surgical specimen concluded a colonic well-differentiated adenocarcinoma with a 30% mucinous component. By review of literature, we discuss diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in emergency.
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