Julián Herrera, Departamento de Imágenes diagnósticas, Hospital Manuel Uribe Ángel, Envigado, Colombia
Juliana L. Molina, Departamento de Cirugía, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín. Colombia
Erika Osorio, Departamento de Cirugía, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Gastrointestinal intussusception is an infrequent entity in adult patients. Even rarest among this are cases involving the gastroduodenal segment. In contradistinction to the pediatric population, most of cases in adult patients have an identifiable cause, tumors being the main etiology. In this article we present the case of a 49 year old woman with chronic and nonspecific symptoms, in whom a gastric mass that generates secondary gastroduodenal intussusception was diagnosed by a contrast computed tomography of the abdomen, a tumor that is later identified in the pathology as a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).
Keywords: Intussusception; Neoplasms; Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; Abdominal pain