CASE REPORT Transient small bowel intu r

is re n s adults, which is defined as the telescoping of a proximal as the lead point, 30 % of small bowel intussusceptions are Aref et al. BMC Surgery (2015) 15:36 DOI 10.1186/s12893-015-0020-6never had any surgical intervention. He presented to our Emergency Department complaining of peri-umbilical Jeddah, Saudi Arabiasegment of the gastrointestinal tract, into the lumen of the adjacent distal segment [3]. The overall incidence of intussusception in adults is around 2–3 cases per 1,000,000 of the general population annually [4]. Intus-susception in adults is usually secondary to an existing caused by malignancy [6,7]. About 10 % of small bowel intussusceptions in adults are idiopathic [8]. This article describes a case of a male adult with idiopathic transient small bowel intussusception. Case presentation We present the case of a forty-one year old male patient with previous medical history of Diabetes Mellitus, who * Correspondence