Bowel intussusception in adult:Prevalence,diagnostic tools and therapy

摘要

Intussusception is defined as invagination of one segment of the bowel into animmediately adjacent segment. The intussusception refers to the proximalsegment that invaginates into the distal segment, or the intussusception (recipientsegment). Intussusception, more common occur in the small bowel and rarelyinvolve only the large bowel. In direct contrast to pediatric etiologies, adultintussusception is associated with an identifiable cause in almost all thesymptomatic cases while the idiopathic causes are extremely rare. As there aremany common causes of acute abdomen, intussusception should be consideredwhen more frequent etiologies have been ruled out. In this review, we discuss thesymptoms, location, etiology, characteristics, diagnostic methods and treatmentstrategies of this rare and enigmatic clinical entity in adult.