BACKGROUND Intussuception is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction in adults. Diagnosis is often difficult due to the variable and sometimes episodic nature of symptoms. Surgery is the recommended treatment option in adults if the diagnosis is proven. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 33 year old Caucasian female admitted with a small bowel obstruction and no history of previous abdom...

U 'NLESS there is a compelling contraindication, most surgeons prefer exteriorization to resection and the performance of primary anastbiplosis in the presence of strang-dating obstruction of the small intestine. The chief compelling indication for a primary anastomotic procedure instead of exteriorization has been considered a high situation of the lesion, a situation in which intestinal fistu...

swing over the last five years thanks to the remarkable improvement of its outcome. This has been due mainly to the improvement of immunosuppressive protocols. The pioneers in SBT using animal models include Alex Carrel (1902, first transplantation of an intestinal segment in the dog) (1), Lillehei (1955, first orthotopic SBT in the dog) (2), and Monchik and Russel (1971, first model of SBT in ...

A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO Lockwood et al. introduced a report on acute small intestine obstruction by remarking that, “The literature abounds in the description and discussion of acute small intestinal obstruction. The entity is well known; its cure is absolute; yet the mortality continues to be high.” ” Since “high” is relative I can use the same introduction for this paper. That the mortalit...

Small bowel obstructions are most frequently caused by hernias or adhesive bands. However, there have been several rare reported cases of mechanical small bowel obstructions caused by loops of bowel or vascular bands. We describe a case of a 30-year-old woman with a clinical presentation suggestive of appendicitis. Laparoscopic evaluation showed an aberrant vessel looping around the small bowel...

BACKGROUND Small bowel bleeding is a leading indication for small bowel capsule endoscopy. The Suspected Blood Indicator (SBI) is a software feature directed to automatically detect bleeding lesions during small bowel capsule endoscopy. OBJECTIVE - We aimed to assess SBI diagnostic accuracy for small bowel haemorrhage or potentially bleeding lesions during small bowel capsule endoscopy for sm...

Modified Small Bowel CT (MBCT) is a low-dose CT method of evaluating chronic conditions affecting the small bowel. Due to ingestion of hyperdense oral contrast, there is resultant high contrast resolution between the bowel lumen, bowel wall and surroundings. This technique can be used in follow-up of chronic conditions affecting the small bowel, including Crohn’s disease, postoperative bowel le...

SUMMARY The therapeutic results in Military Medicine, witch is an important aspect of Disaster Medicine, is related to logestic, personal, carriage and medical supply facilities. On the other hand, it is also related to the surgeon's knowledge of the balestic effects of flying objects, time limitations and wound contamination. From 522 adbominal trauma patients injured by bullets and quiveral...

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 ...