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K. Takeuchi, Y. Tsuzuki, T. Ando, M. Sekihara, T. Hara, T. Kori and H. Kuwano, “The Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult Intussusception,” Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2003, pp. 18-21. doi:10.1097/00004836-200301000-00007

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• TITLE: Epitheloid Leiomyosarcoma of the Jejunum Presenting with Intussusception in a Young Adult Male: A Case Report

  AUTHORS: John O. Obafunwa, Christopher Pritchett, Siva Maikandanathan, Dahiru Adamu Garkuwa

  KEYWORDS: Epitheloid Leiomyosarcoma; Intussusception; Surgical Resection

  JOURNAL NAME: Surgical Science, Vol.4 No.5, May 7, 2013

  ABSTRACT: A 27-year-old male presented with intestinal obstruction due to a jejuno-jejunal intussusception, 23 years after a childhood nasopharyngeal carcinoma. He was successfully treated for the latter by radiotherapy but subsequently required a mandibuloplasty for presumably facial hypoplasia sequel to the radiotherapy. The present intussusception was resected with wide margins revealing a partly haemorrhagic, polypoid and sessile jejunal tumour measuring 7.7 × 3.5 × 2.6 cm. Microscopy with extensive immunohistochemical studies revealed a relatively rare and highly malignant epitheloid leiomyosarcoma arising from the muscularis propria with extension to the mucosa and serosa. No metastases were found and post-operative follow-up has so far been uneventful. The present case of a malignant tumour presenting as an intussusception in a young adult, was unrelated to a childhood malignant tumour in the same patient. The former was successfully treated by a wide excision in support of the advocated surgical approach to adult intussusception.