Abstract

VERTIZ, Moisés, GARCIA, Manuel and YABAR, Herbert. Small bowel intussusception due to T-cell lymphoma. An. Fac. med., Sept. 2007, vol.68, no.3, p.270-274. ISSN 1025-5583.

Female patient FPM, 53 year-old, housewife, born in Amazonas, Peru, resident in Lima since teenager, was admitted at Emergency room due to colicky abdominal pain and abdominal tumour about 8 x 5 x 5 cm, in mesogastric area, mobile and painful. She had vomiting in two opportunities and lost undetermined weight. During surgery we found terminal ileum intussuception into the ascending large bowel and a tumour mass in terminal ileum. Pathology report informed high degree of malignancy no-Hodgkin T-cell phenotype lymphoma.

Keywords: Lymphoma, T-cell; intestine, small; intussusception; surgery.