Gomez G, Bilal M, Klepchick P, Clarke K. Rare case of entero-enteric intussusception caused by small bowel metastasis from a cardiac liposarcoma. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2016; 8(3): 326-329 [PMID: 26989469 DOI: 10.4251/wjgo.v8.i3.326]
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Mohammad Bilal, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15229, United States. mbilal@wpahs.org
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Oncology
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World J Gastrointest Oncol. Mar 15, 2016; 8(3): 326-329 Published online Mar 15, 2016. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v8.i3.326
Rare case of entero-enteric intussusception caused by small bowel metastasis from a cardiac liposarcoma
Gustavo Gomez, Mohammad Bilal, Paul Klepchick, Kofi Clarke
Gustavo Gomez, Kofi Clarke, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15229, United States
Mohammad Bilal, Department of Internal Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15229, United States
Paul Klepchick, Department of Radiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15229, United States
Author contributions: Gomez G and Bilal M were involved in care of patient and performed literature review and wrote majority of the manuscript; Klepchick P provided insight into important radiographic findings; Clarke K was involved in editing the manuscript and provided expert opinion.
Institutional review board statement: This was not applicable as this is a case report and no intervention to change outcomes was done.
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Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors report no conflict of interest and have no financial disclosures.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Mohammad Bilal, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15229, United States. mbilal@wpahs.org
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Received: August 1, 2015 Peer-review started: August 6, 2015 First decision: November 6, 2015 Revised: November 19, 2015 Accepted: December 29, 2015 Article in press: January 4, 2016 Published online: March 15, 2016 Processing time: 219 Days and 15.5 Hours
Abstract
Primary cardiac liposarcoma is exceedingly rare and its metastatic potential varies based on the actual tumor subclass. Intestinal intussusception is also an uncommon cause of abdominal pain and bowel obstruction in adults and it usually generates at a malignant lead point in this age group. We report a case of a primary cardiac dedifferentiated liposarcoma in a pregnant woman causing small bowel seeding leading to bowel intussusception.
Core tip: Primary cardiac liposarcoma is exceedingly rare and its metastatic potential varies based on the actual tumor subclass. Intestinal intussusception is also an uncommon cause of abdominal pain and bowel obstruction in adults and it usually generates at a malignant lead point in this age group. We report a case of a primary cardiac dedifferentiated liposarcoma in a pregnant woman causing small bowel seeding leading to bowel intussusception.
