Abdominal pain with a twist

Malrotation in children is due to either an incomplete or non-rotation of the foetal mid-gut during perinatal development. Presentation is usually in the first few weeks of life, often with life-threatening volvulus and ischaemia. However, it can be a rare cause of abdominal pain in older children a...

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Autores principales: Mathews, Rachael, Thenabadu, Sam, Jaiganesh, Thiagarajan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21635723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-21
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description Malrotation in children is due to either an incomplete or non-rotation of the foetal mid-gut during perinatal development. Presentation is usually in the first few weeks of life, often with life-threatening volvulus and ischaemia. However, it can be a rare cause of abdominal pain in older children and young adults. We present such a case, as a reminder to emergency physicians that malrotation should be considered in the differential diagnosis of recurrent or chronic abdominal pain not only in children but also in adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-31137142011-06-14 Abdominal pain with a twist Mathews, Rachael Thenabadu, Sam Jaiganesh, Thiagarajan Int J Emerg Med Case Report Malrotation in children is due to either an incomplete or non-rotation of the foetal mid-gut during perinatal development. Presentation is usually in the first few weeks of life, often with life-threatening volvulus and ischaemia. However, it can be a rare cause of abdominal pain in older children and young adults. We present such a case, as a reminder to emergency physicians that malrotation should be considered in the differential diagnosis of recurrent or chronic abdominal pain not only in children but also in adolescents. Springer 2011-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3113714/ /pubmed/21635723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-21 Text en Copyright ©2011 Mathews et al; licensee Springer. 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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