Elmajdoubi Hicham, Baiss Marouane, El Absi Mohamed, El Alami El Hassan El Faricha, Ouanani Mohamed El, Echarrab El Mahjoub, El Amraoui Mohamed, Errougani Abdelkader
Surgical Emergency Department, Avicenna Hospital, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
Case Rep Gastrointest Med. 2021 Apr 21;2021:5534918. doi: 10.1155/2021/5534918. eCollection 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.