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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: A rare case of intussusception leading to the diagnosis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report A rare case of intussusception leading to the diagnosis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome a case report loannis Kehagias 1 Stavros N Karamanakos1 Spyros Panagiotopoulos1 Sofia Giali2 Charalambos A Gogos2 and Fotis Kalfarentzos1 Address Department of Surgery School of Medicine University of Patras Rion University Hospital 26500 Patras Greece and - Department of Internal Medicine School of Medicine University of Patras Rion University Hospital 26500 Patras Greece Email loannis Kehagias - ikehag@ Stavros N Karamanakos - stkarama@ Spyros Panagiotopoulos - sppaplos@ Sofia Giali - cgogos@ Charalambos A Gogos - cgogos@ Fotis Kalfarentzos - fkalfar@ Corresponding author Published II February 2009 Received 13 March 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 61 doi 1752-1947-3-61 Accepted 11 February 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 61 2009 Kehagias et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Although a common cause of intestinal obstruction in children intussusception is a rare event in the adult population living in temperate regions. It has long been known that various acquired immune deficiency syndrome related conditions of the bowel such as lymphoma lymphoid hyperplasia cytomegalovirus colitis and Kaposi s sarcoma can lead to intussusception. The diagnosis is particularly difficult in this population of patients due to the non-specific nature of the symptoms as well as the depressed immune response obscuring inflammation or ischemia. Though the reported acquired immune deficiency syndrome associated .