Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction

Small bowel obstruction is a common operative finding following an acute surgical admission. However, small bowel obstruction due to an enterolith is a rarer finding. Enteroliths are formed in conditions contributing to hypomotility and stasis within the gastrointestinal tract. These include Crohn’s...

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Autores principales: Patel, Chantal, Balasubramaniam, Ravivarma, Bullen, Timothy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642343
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8427
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author Patel, Chantal
Balasubramaniam, Ravivarma
Bullen, Timothy
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description Small bowel obstruction is a common operative finding following an acute surgical admission. However, small bowel obstruction due to an enterolith is a rarer finding. Enteroliths are formed in conditions contributing to hypomotility and stasis within the gastrointestinal tract. These include Crohn’s disease, strictures, and intestinal diverticulae. We present a case of small bowel obstruction due to an enterolith in an 89-year-old female. In our case, CT identified an inflamed jejunal diverticulum pre-operatively.
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spelling pubmed-73366842020-07-07 Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction Patel, Chantal Balasubramaniam, Ravivarma Bullen, Timothy Cureus Radiology Small bowel obstruction is a common operative finding following an acute surgical admission. However, small bowel obstruction due to an enterolith is a rarer finding. Enteroliths are formed in conditions contributing to hypomotility and stasis within the gastrointestinal tract. These include Crohn’s disease, strictures, and intestinal diverticulae. We present a case of small bowel obstruction due to an enterolith in an 89-year-old female. In our case, CT identified an inflamed jejunal diverticulum pre-operatively. Cureus 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7336684/ /pubmed/32642343 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8427 Text en Copyright © 2020, Patel 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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Patel, Chantal
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Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction
title Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction
title_full Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction
title_fullStr Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction
title_full_unstemmed Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction
title_short Jejunal Enterolith: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction
title_sort jejunal enterolith: a rare case of small bowel obstruction
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642343
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8427
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