Nihar Shah¹, Therese Lizardo-Escaño², Hamid Shaaban², Gautamy Dhadham³, Arya Karki³, Robert Spira^2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark; Department of Gastroenterology, Saintt Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Paterson, NJ, USA.
²Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, USA.
³Department of Gastroenterology, Saintt Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Paterson, NJ, USA.
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.149124

ABSTRACT

Small bowel intussusception is a rare congenital disease entity, mostly manifesting before the age of two with abdominal pain and acute intestinal obstruction. In adults, colon intussusception is a rare event causing approximately 1% of all acute intestinal obstructions and they can occur idiopathically in adults or due to an intraluminal tumor mass. We report a case of an enterogenous cyst causing intussusception and iron deficiency anemia in an adult treated by surgical excision and resection of the small bowel.

Keywords: Enterogenous cyst, intussusception, small bowel.