Spontaneous transverse colon volvulus

We report a case of spontaneous transverse colon volvulus in a young healthy woman. It constitutes an unusual case since it occurred in a young healthy woman with a subacute onset and no aetiological factor has been found. Its diagnosis is still challenging. Prompt recognition with emergency interve...

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Autores principales: Sana, Landolsi, Ali, Gassara, Kallel, Helmi, Amine, Baklouti, Ahmed, Saadaoui, Mohamed Ali, Elouer, Wajdi, Chaeib, Saber, Mannaï
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23785565
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.160.2073
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author Sana, Landolsi
Ali, Gassara
Kallel, Helmi
Amine, Baklouti
Ahmed, Saadaoui
Mohamed Ali, Elouer
Wajdi, Chaeib
Saber, Mannaï
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Ali, Gassara
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Ahmed, Saadaoui
Mohamed Ali, Elouer
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description We report a case of spontaneous transverse colon volvulus in a young healthy woman. It constitutes an unusual case since it occurred in a young healthy woman with a subacute onset and no aetiological factor has been found. Its diagnosis is still challenging. Prompt recognition with emergency intervention constitutes the key to successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-36835262013-06-19 Spontaneous transverse colon volvulus Sana, Landolsi Ali, Gassara Kallel, Helmi Amine, Baklouti Ahmed, Saadaoui Mohamed Ali, Elouer Wajdi, Chaeib Saber, Mannaï Pan Afr Med J Case Report We report a case of spontaneous transverse colon volvulus in a young healthy woman. It constitutes an unusual case since it occurred in a young healthy woman with a subacute onset and no aetiological factor has been found. Its diagnosis is still challenging. Prompt recognition with emergency intervention constitutes the key to successful outcome. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3683526/ /pubmed/23785565 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.160.2073 Text en © Landolsi Sana et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Saber, Mannaï
Spontaneous transverse colon volvulus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683526/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.160.2073
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