Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature

A 75-year old male presented to the emergency room with worsening abdominal pain and distension. Plain radiographs were suggestive of a large bowel obstruction due to volvulus. An attempt to detorse the volvulus and decompress the colon endoscopically failed, after which the patient was taken for an...

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Autores principales: Sparks, Dorothy A, Dawood, Murtaza Y, Chase, Daniel M, Thomas, David J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18808679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-174
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Dawood, Murtaza Y
Chase, Daniel M
Thomas, David J
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description A 75-year old male presented to the emergency room with worsening abdominal pain and distension. Plain radiographs were suggestive of a large bowel obstruction due to volvulus. An attempt to detorse the volvulus and decompress the colon endoscopically failed, after which the patient was taken for an exploratory laparotomy. A transverse colon volvulus was found, and an extended right hemicolectomy and ileostomy was performed. We discuss the diagnosis and management of transverse colon volvulus and review the pertinent literature.
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spelling pubmed-25649072008-10-09 Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature Sparks, Dorothy A Dawood, Murtaza Y Chase, Daniel M Thomas, David J Cases J Case Report A 75-year old male presented to the emergency room with worsening abdominal pain and distension. Plain radiographs were suggestive of a large bowel obstruction due to volvulus. An attempt to detorse the volvulus and decompress the colon endoscopically failed, after which the patient was taken for an exploratory laparotomy. A transverse colon volvulus was found, and an extended right hemicolectomy and ileostomy was performed. We discuss the diagnosis and management of transverse colon volvulus and review the pertinent literature. BioMed Central 2008-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2564907/ /pubmed/18808679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-174 Text en Copyright © 2008 Sparks et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature
title Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature
title_full Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature
title_short Ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: A case report and review of literature
title_sort ischemic volvulus of the transverse colon: a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18808679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-174
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