Cc. Chung et al., GASTROINTESTINAL AUTONOMIC NERVE TUMOR PRESENTING AS SMALL-BOWEL VOLVULUS - A RARE DISEASE WITH A RARE PRESENTATION, International journal of clinical practice, 51(8), 1997, pp. 520-521
A 78-year-old Chinese woman presented with recurrent postprandial abdo
minal pain. Computerised tomography revealed a small bowel tumour caus
ing volvulus of a segment of the small bowel. Laparotomy confirmed an
extraluminal ileal tumour with partial volvulus of the involved small
bowel segment. Small bowel resection was done. Histological and ultras
tructural studies confirmed a gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumour.
We review the medical literature on this rare tumour.