Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons (Jan 2014)

A rare case of kaposiform hemangioendothelioma presenting as intussusception in a 4-month-old child without Kasabach-Merrit syndrome: A case report

  • Jujju Jacob Kurian,
  • Ravi Kishore,
  • Tarun Jacob John,
  • Harshad Parmer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.142017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 4
pp. 233 – 235

Abstract

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We report the identification of Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma of the cecum presenting as colocolic intussusception in a 4-month-old boy without Kasabach-Merrit syndrome. To our knowledge this is the first reported case in the literature of such a presentation.

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