Volvolus in an adult patient due to intestinal malrotation. Case report and review of literature.

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Armando Nardone
Nicolò Tamini
Luca Nespoli
Riccardo Pirovano

Abstract

Intestinal maltoration is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults and it could create a perplexing situation for surgeons not familiar with this pediatric pathology. Symptomatic patients present either acutely with bowel obstruction and intestinal ischemia with a midgut or cecal volvolus, or chronically with vague abdominal pain.


Several modalities can be used to describe the intestinal abnormality such as barium X-ray, computer tomography scans, angiography and sometimes also the explorative laparotomy.


The authors report on a case 62 years-old women presented to Emergency Center for plurime episodies of biliar emesis and diffuse abdominal pain in the last 5 days and treated for bowel obstruction secondary to a midgut volvolus in anomaly of fetal intestinal rotation.

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Nardone, Armando, et al. “Volvolus in an Adult Patient Due to Intestinal Malrotation. Case Report and Review of Literature”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 81, no. 5, Sept. 2010, pp. 377-81, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/2252.
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