A Case of Peutz-Jeghers Type Polyp in the Small Intestine Which Caused Intussuception Repeatedly, Treated by Laparoscopic Surgery

Rie Ishibashi, Toyoshi Sogabe, Kazuya Muguruma, Masahiro Okuno, Munehiro Sakata¹⁾, Masao Kobayashi¹⁾, Eiyou Yukawa¹⁾, Sumio Takashima²⁾ and Masahiko Tsujimoto³⁾

Department of Surgery, Yukawa Gastrointestinal Hospital,
Department of Internal Medicine, Yukawa Gastrointestinal Hospital¹⁾,
Department of Radiology, Yukawa Gastrointestinal Hospital²⁾,
Department of Pathology, Osaka Police Hospital³⁾

A 23-year-old woman admitted with abdominal pain was found in ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT) to have a target-shaped thickening of the small intestine suggesting intussusception. Small intestinal radiography showed a polypoid lesion in the jejunum. Upper and lower endoscopic examination did not show abnormal findings. The tumor was resected by laparoscopic surgery. Histopathologically, the polyp was a Peutz-Jeghers polyp of the jejunum. We find laparoscopy useful in treating tumors of the small intestine.

Key words
hamartoma of jejunum, intussusception, Peutz-Jeghers polyp

Reprint requests
Rie Ishibashi Department of Surgical Oncology, Osaka City University Medical School 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, Abeno-ku, Osaka, 545-8585 JAPAN

Accepted
May 29, 2002

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