Gastroduodenal Intussusception in Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
A Mokhtari, A De Leucio, G Boitsios - Journal of the Belgian …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A Mokhtari, A De Leucio, G Boitsios
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2022•ncbi.nlm.nih.gov… The patient was known to have Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) with multiple
hamartomatous gastrointestinal polyps since the histological analysis of a 50 cm small bowel
resection, which occurred at the age of four in the course of acute ileo-ileal intussusception. A
contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) on coronal curved reformation
through the stomach and duodenal axes (Figure 1a), in the axial plane at the level of the
stomach body (Figure 1b), and the pancreatic head (Figure 1c) showed multiple enhancing …
hamartomatous gastrointestinal polyps since the histological analysis of a 50 cm small bowel
resection, which occurred at the age of four in the course of acute ileo-ileal intussusception. A
contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) on coronal curved reformation
through the stomach and duodenal axes (Figure 1a), in the axial plane at the level of the
stomach body (Figure 1b), and the pancreatic head (Figure 1c) showed multiple enhancing …
Abstract
Teaching points: Gastroduodenal intussusception is an infrequent cause of abdominal pain in children, for which a lead-point is nearly ubiquitous, which imposes endoscopic reduction as the first line of treatment.
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