A Unique Case of Small Bowel Internal Hernia and Volvulus Caused by a Hamartoma

This study depicts the case of a young female presenting with intestinal obstruction. Surgery uncovered a small bowel hamartoma that has caused a transmesenteric internal hernia and volvulus. As far as we know, this is unheard of before, as all three mentioned entities are very rare. The study also...

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Autores principales: Khaled, Charif, Akl, Michel, Moussallem, Toufic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8370791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34414262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1733832
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description This study depicts the case of a young female presenting with intestinal obstruction. Surgery uncovered a small bowel hamartoma that has caused a transmesenteric internal hernia and volvulus. As far as we know, this is unheard of before, as all three mentioned entities are very rare. The study also covers a literature review of cases of internal hernia with volvulus and stresses over the need for urgent diagnosis and management.
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spelling pubmed-83707912021-08-18 A Unique Case of Small Bowel Internal Hernia and Volvulus Caused by a Hamartoma Khaled, Charif Akl, Michel Moussallem, Toufic Surg J (N Y) This study depicts the case of a young female presenting with intestinal obstruction. Surgery uncovered a small bowel hamartoma that has caused a transmesenteric internal hernia and volvulus. As far as we know, this is unheard of before, as all three mentioned entities are very rare. The study also covers a literature review of cases of internal hernia with volvulus and stresses over the need for urgent diagnosis and management. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8370791/ /pubmed/34414262 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1733832 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 work is properly cited.
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