RESUMO
Resumen La obstrucción intestinal es una patología potencialmente letal y cuyo tratamiento, por lo general, es quirúrgico. Presentamos el caso de un paciente con dolor abdominal y clínica de obstrucción intestinal recurrente, en quien se documenta, durante una colonoscopia, un gran pólipo pediculado que causaba obstrucciones parciales por el fenómeno de ball valve.
Abstract Intestinal obstruction is a potentially lethal pathology, and its treatment is usually surgical. The following is the case of a patient with abdominal pain and recurrent intestinal obstruction, in whom a large pediculated polyp that caused partial obstruction by Ball valve effect was observed during a colonoscopy.
Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Adulto , Pólipos , Síndrome , Colo , Obstrução Intestinal , TerapêuticaRESUMO
Resumen Se presenta el caso de una paciente con hemorragia digestiva alta, en quien durante el examen físico se documentó el signo de la hermana María José, que se confirmó ulteriormente mediante endoscopia digestiva y estudios histopatológicos la presencia de un cáncer gástrico avanzado.
Abstract We present the case of a patient with upper gastrointestinal bleeding for whom the Sister Mary Joseph nodule was documented during the physical examination. Later, advanced gastric cancer was confirmed by means of digestive endoscopy and histopathological studies.