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Amit Gupta, Sweety Gupta, Ashutosh Tandon, Mrinalini Kotru, Sunil Kumar. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor causing ileo-ileal intussusception in an adult patient – a rare presentation with review of literature. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2011;8:29 Key words: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor, Ileo-ileal intussusception, Acute small bowel obstruction Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/8/29/full Received: 25/01/2011 - Accepted: 17/03/2011 - Published: 20/03/2011 © Amit Gupta et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor causing ileo-ileal intussusception in an adult patient – a rare presentation with review of literature
Amit Gupta1,&, Sweety Gupta2, Ashutosh Tandon1, Mrinalini Kotru3, Sunil Kumar1
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Oncology, 3and Department of Pathology University College of Medical Sciences and associated Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, New Delhi, India
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Amit Gupta, 56-A, Double Storey, Patel Nagar-II, Ghaziabad, PIN-201001, (UP) India
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are mesenchymal tumors occurring anywhere along the gastrointestinal tract and are believed to originate from the interstitial cells of Cajal. They commonly arise in the stomach or small intestine. The usual growth pattern is exophytic invading adjacent organs or perforation into the peritoneal cavity which may result in bleeding or obstructive symptoms. Intussusception and obstruction is a very uncommon presentation of these lesions because of their tendency to grow in an extraluminal fashion. We report an unusual case of 59 yrs old man presenting with acute small bowel obstruction, which on exploration was found to be due to ileo-ileal intussusception and the lead point of intussusception was a tumor, which was histologically diagnosed as GIST
