Uterine Rotation: A Cause of Intestinal Obstruction

Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon surgical emergency during pregnancy that affects seriously the prognosis of gestation. The underlying cause can be identified in the majority of cases and usually consists of adhesions secondary to previous abdominal or pelvic surgery, followed in order of frequ...

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Autores principales: González-Mesa, Ernesto, Narbona, Isidoro, Cohen, Isaac, Villegas, Emilia, Cuenca, Celia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23781360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/759250
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author González-Mesa, Ernesto
Narbona, Isidoro
Cohen, Isaac
Villegas, Emilia
Cuenca, Celia
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description Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon surgical emergency during pregnancy that affects seriously the prognosis of gestation. The underlying cause can be identified in the majority of cases and usually consists of adhesions secondary to previous abdominal or pelvic surgery, followed in order of frequency by intestinal volvuli. In recent years there have been no reports in which the gravid uterus has been the cause of intestinal obstruction. We report the case of a woman in week 33 + 4 of pregnancy who developed extrinsic compression of the colon secondary to uterine rotation and pelvic impaction of the head of the fetus.
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spelling pubmed-36769952013-06-18 Uterine Rotation: A Cause of Intestinal Obstruction González-Mesa, Ernesto Narbona, Isidoro Cohen, Isaac Villegas, Emilia Cuenca, Celia Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon surgical emergency during pregnancy that affects seriously the prognosis of gestation. The underlying cause can be identified in the majority of cases and usually consists of adhesions secondary to previous abdominal or pelvic surgery, followed in order of frequency by intestinal volvuli. In recent years there have been no reports in which the gravid uterus has been the cause of intestinal obstruction. We report the case of a woman in week 33 + 4 of pregnancy who developed extrinsic compression of the colon secondary to uterine rotation and pelvic impaction of the head of the fetus. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3676995/ /pubmed/23781360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/759250 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ernesto González-Mesa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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González-Mesa, Ernesto
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Uterine Rotation: A Cause of Intestinal Obstruction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676995/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/759250
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