Revista: | Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia |
Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
Número de sistema: | 000305967 |
ISSN: | 1516-8484 |
Autores: | Ehrhardt, Alessandra O1 Nicolich, Marcello M Franco, Luis Queiroz, Tania |
Instituciones: | 1Hospital Municipal da Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil |
Año: | 2003 |
Periodo: | Abr-Jun |
Volumen: | 25 |
Número: | 2 |
Paginación: | 115-117 |
País: | Brasil |
Idioma: | Portugués |
Tipo de documento: | Correspondencia |
Enfoque: | Caso clínico |
Resumen en inglés | Intussusception in adults is a rare condition and it can occur as a gastric complication from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Such complications can be difficult to diagnose because of ill-defined symptoms. Methods of imaging such as abdominal X-rays, ultrasonography, tomography and colonoscopy are useful for its diagnosis. Here a female patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that evolved to intussusception of bowels, the regression of which was achieved by clinical and chemotherapeutic treatment without surgical intervention |
Disciplinas: | Medicina |
Palabras clave: | Diagnóstico, Gastroenterología, Hematología, Intususcepción, Linfoma no Hodgkin |
Keyword: | Medicine, Diagnosis, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Intussusception, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma |
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