volvulus talks louder than colon cancer in iranian patients with acute large bowel obstruction

Volvulus Talks Louder than Colon Cancer in Iranian Patients with Acute Large Bowel Obstruction

Background: Acute obstruction of the colon continues to be a lethal disease with little improvement in the mortality rate over the past 50 years. So, this study was undertaken to define the causes of colon obstruction and their probable changes after years. Methods: From 1979 to 2004, all records of patients with definite diagnosis of intestinal obstruction at all hospitals affiliated to Shiraz...

Complicated Jejunal Diverticulosis: Small Bowel Volvulus with Obstruction

he incidence of the diverticulum of the small bowel varies from 0.2-1.3% in autopsy studies to 2.3% when assessed on enteroclysis. It occurs mostly in patients in the 6th decade of their life. Of all the small bowel diverticuli, jejunal diverticulum is the most common type. This rare entity is usually asymptomatic. However, they may cause chronic non-specific symptoms for a long period of time ...

complicated jejunal diverticulosis: small bowel volvulus with obstruction

he incidence of the diverticulum of the small bowel varies from 0.2-1.3% in autopsy studies to 2.3% when assessed on enteroclysis. it occurs mostly in patients in the 6th decade of their life. of all the small bowel diverticuli, jejunal diverticulum is the most common type. this rare entity is usually asymptomatic. however, they may cause chronic non-specific symptoms for a long period of time ...

Acute transverse colon volvulus with partial

Transverse colon (T-Colon) volvulus is a uncommon and first reported by kallu in 1917 [1] and till now 70 paper published till now to our knowledge as per PubMed search. The incidence of colonic volvulus is 3-5 % and T-colon volvulus represents 3-4% out of it [2]. Few of the papers published were in pediatric but it is more common in adult [2-4]. The mortality rates are three time more common i...

Complicated Jejunal Diverticulosis: Small Bowel Volvulus with Obstruction

The incidence of the diverticulum of the small bowel varies from 0.2-1.3% in autopsy studies to 2.3% when assessed on enteroclysis. It occurs mostly in patients in the 6th decade of their life. Of all the small bowel diverticuli, jejunal diverticulum is the most common type. This rare entity is usually asymptomatic. However, they may cause chronic non-specific symptoms for a long period of time...

Treatment in acute large bowel obstruction due to carcinoma.