Phytobezoar is an unusual cause of small bowel obstruction. It accounts for about 0.4%-4% of all mechanical bowel obstruction. However, the symptoms are not very different from those caused by usual aetiologies of small bowel obstruction. The commonest site of obstruction is terminal ileum. Treatment of small bowel obstruction due to Phytobezoar is surgery. Prevention includes avoidance of high...

An intestinal obstruction can be divided into mechanical or functional of the small intestine large intestine. This happen if lumen is partially completely blocked. Within common clinical picture you find abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, constipation to and distension. Small bowel obstructions occur more frequently than obstructions. One classifications able divide them in complete, closed han...

Transection of gut due to adhesive band is an unusual complication of adhesive bowel disease. A 2-year old female presented with signs and symptoms of intestinal obstruction. Eight months earlier she underwent laparotomy for excision of duplication cyst of ileum. Exploratory laparotomy performed during current admission showed complete transection of gut.

gastric bezoars are gastric masses, which rarely cause intestinal obstruction by passing through the small bowel. in this article, we report a 56 year-old man with no history of gastric surgery who presented with intestinal obstruction. the obstruction seemed to be in terminal ileum. colonoscopy was done and a movable mass was noted, which was extracted from the cecum by colonoscope resulting i...

Surgical treatment of the complications associated with Meckel’s diverticulum is widely accepted, but surgical management of an asymptomatic diverticulum found incidentally during laparotomy for other reasons is controversial. Appendectomy is the most common reason for laparotomy in many pediatric surgery clinics. The most common causes of an intestinal obstruction in the early period after app...

To cite: Kusumoto M, Koganemaru M, Nakayama G, et al. BMJ Case Reports Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2012-007950 DESCRIPTION A 59-year-old man with no history of abdominal or intestinal surgery, trauma or psychiatric illness presented to our hospital with abdominal pain and vomiting. Physical examination revealed hyperactive bowel sounds and lower abdominal ...

Objective: To determine the feasibility of hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid in the evaluation of small bowel obstruction in adults. Patients and Methods: This was a pilot study of the feasibility of technetium 99m hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid in the evaluation of small bowel obstruction. A total of 8 patients clinically suspected to have small bowel obstruction were recruited in this study ...