Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report

Small bowel volvulus is a rare clinical entity which presents as recurrent intermittent abdominal pain after consumption of food. Although the entity is well described in the literature, diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation being similar to mesenteric ischemia. Herein we pre...

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Autores principales: Patial, Tushar, Chaddha, Sahil, Rathore, Namit, Thakur, Vishal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28663941
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1281
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author Patial, Tushar
Chaddha, Sahil
Rathore, Namit
Thakur, Vishal
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description Small bowel volvulus is a rare clinical entity which presents as recurrent intermittent abdominal pain after consumption of food. Although the entity is well described in the literature, diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation being similar to mesenteric ischemia. Herein we present the case of a 44-year-old male who presented to us with this condition.
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spelling pubmed-54893452017-06-29 Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report Patial, Tushar Chaddha, Sahil Rathore, Namit Thakur, Vishal Cureus General Surgery Small bowel volvulus is a rare clinical entity which presents as recurrent intermittent abdominal pain after consumption of food. Although the entity is well described in the literature, diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation being similar to mesenteric ischemia. Herein we present the case of a 44-year-old male who presented to us with this condition. Cureus 2017-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5489345/ /pubmed/28663941 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1281 Text en Copyright © 2017, Patial et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Patial, Tushar
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title Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report
title_full Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report
title_fullStr Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report
title_short Small Bowel Volvulus: A Case Report
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topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28663941
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1281
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