Colocolic tumoral intussusception in the adult: value of multi-slice spiral CT imaging

Clin Imaging. 2007 Nov-Dec;31(6):428-30. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.08.001.

Abstract

Colocolic intussusception in the adult, caused by a tumoral process, is a rare clinical event. We have studied two adults clinically presenting with a mass in the right iliac fossa, which was produced in one case by a carcinoma involving the right colon and in the other case involving the sigmoid. Multi-slice spiral CT imaging showed the presence of a colocolic intussusception-the tumoral characteristics of the lesion eliminated the possibility of a lipoma-and it allowed a satisfactory presurgical evaluation of the pathological process.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Aged
  • Colonic Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Colonic Diseases / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Intussusception / diagnostic imaging*
  • Intussusception / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed*