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Abdominal CT with i.v contrast (a) axial and (b) coronal view that shows small bowel thickening associated with an intussusception.
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A computerized tomography showed an intussusception of the small bowel without any other findings (Fig. 1a and b).
Resected segment of jejunum with different polypoid tumors that harbor adenocarcinoma.
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Multiple small polypoid tumors in the jejunum were the cause of the intussusception and 25 cm of small bowel were resected including all the lesions in the specimen without an extended lymphadenectomy and an end-to-end anastomosis was performed (Fig. 2).
a and b: PET-CT in axial and coronal views that shows two hypermetabolic foci in small bowel, one of them associated with an intussusception.
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The patient underwent a PET-CT that showed 5 hypercatabolic lesions from the duodenum to the ileum without suspicious lymphadenopathies or metastases (Fig. 3a and b).