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This paper reports on a case of oral melanosis resultng from Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome, a hereditary disease characterized by harmatomatous polyposis and by mucocutaneous melanic pigmentation, in a 14-year-old Fijian girl with a family history of the disease. The patient underwent surgery for treatment of an intestinal obstruction due to a small intestine intussusception. Recognition of the characteristic pigmentation by dentists may lead to early diagnosis of associated harmatomatous polyps or neoplastic disease that may be life threatening.
Pac Health Dialog 2003 Mar
PMID:Oral melanosis: a case report of Peutz-Jegher's Syndrome in Suva, Fiji. 1627 44

Postoperative intussusception is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction in adults. We report a case of postoperative jejunojejunal intussusception in a 45-year-old female following a transverse colectomy for a colonic tumour. The patient presented with intermittent bowel obstruction on the fourth day of her operation. A re-laparotomy performed on day twenty one revealed a jejunojejunal intussusception as the cause for the obstruction. This is a rare cause of postoperative small bowel obstruction, and the pathogenesis and diagnosis of postoperative intussusception in the adult is discussed in the case report.
Pac Health Dialog 2010 Sep
PMID:Adult postoperative intussusception following transverse colectomy--a rare complication. 2171 42