Eleftherios Spartalis1, Nikolaos Garmpis2, Michael Spartalis2, Christos Damaskos2, Demetrios Moris3, Antonios Athanasiou4, Paraskevas Gkolfakis5, Penelope Korkolopoulou6, Dimitrios Dimitroulis2, Dimitrios Mantas2. 1. Second Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Medical School, "Laikon" General Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece eleftherios.spartalis@gmail.com. 2. Second Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Medical School, "Laikon" General Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 3. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A. 4. Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, U.K. 5. Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Medical School, "Attikon" General Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 6. Department of Pathology, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIM: Adenocarcinoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the small intestine complicating Crohn's disease. However, the coexistence of both conditions with diverticulosis of small bowel in young age makes this coincidence rare and clinical diagnosis very difficult. CASE REPORT: We report a case of a woman admitted to our Department with acute abdominal pain and fever. The surgical and histological investigation, revealed a rare coexistence that has never been mentioned in the published medical literature. CONCLUSION: Ileal diverticulosis is not frequent and often asymptomatic as well as adenocarcinoma of the small bowel. In this case, those diseases along with Crohn's disease led the patient to acute symptoms. Copyright
BACKGROUND/AIM: Adenocarcinoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the small intestine complicating Crohn's disease. However, the coexistence of both conditions with diverticulosis of small bowel in young age makes this coincidence rare and clinical diagnosis very difficult. CASE REPORT: We report a case of a woman admitted to our Department with acute abdominal pain and fever. The surgical and histological investigation, revealed a rare coexistence that has never been mentioned in the published medical literature. CONCLUSION:Ileal diverticulosis is not frequent and often asymptomatic as well as adenocarcinoma of the small bowel. In this case, those diseases along with Crohn's disease led the patient to acute symptoms. Copyright
Authors: Vanessa Palascak-Juif; Anne Marie Bouvier; Jacques Cosnes; Bernard Flourié; Olivier Bouché; Guillaume Cadiot; Marc Lémann; Bruno Bonaz; Christine Denet; Philippe Marteau; Luc Gambiez; Laurent Beaugerie; Jean Faivre; Franck Carbonnel Journal: Inflamm Bowel Dis Date: 2005-09 Impact factor: 5.325