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Intussusception of sigmoid colon in a adult

Spontaneous expulsion of sequestered bowel and restoration of bowel continuity

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A 67-year-old white man presented with bloody diarrhea and passed a 22-cm long segment of fullthickness sigmoid colon following a barium enema. He had advanced peripheral and cerebral vascular disease and had undergone pelvic irradiation for a bladder cancer five years previously. He recovered uneventfully from the bowel sloughage. This was apparently due to an intussusception of the sigmoid colon followed by the formation of adhesions between the edges of the adjacent viable bowel.

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  1. Konrad Schulze MD, FRCP (C)

    Present address: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospitals, 52242, Iowa City, Iowa

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  1. Gastrointestinal Service of the Queen Mary Veterans Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, P. Q., Canada

    Konrad Schulze MD, FRCP (C), Mansour Jabbari MD, FRCP (C) & David Murray MRC Path

  2. Departments of Medicine and Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, P. Q., Canada

    Konrad Schulze MD, FRCP (C), Mansour Jabbari MD, FRCP (C) & David Murray MRC Path

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Schulze, K., Jabbari, M. & Murray, D. Intussusception of sigmoid colon in a adult. Digest Dis Sci 23, 1144–1147 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01072893

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