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 ...

BACKGROUND Closed loop bowel obstruction is a specific type of mechanical obstruction with a high risk of strangulation and bowel infarction, especially in the small bowel. It is associated with a high mortality rate. Hence, it is important for emergency physicians to identify the presence of strangulation, while making the diagnosis of closed loop small bowel obstruction. METHODS We reported...

BACKGROUND Best practices promulgated by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma suggest that delay in surgery for adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) should not exceed 5 days. This study aimed to probe the relationship between operative delay and adverse outcomes, defined as occurrence of a complication, requirement for bowel resection, prolonged postoperative stay, or death in A...

We report a rare drain-related complication leading to small bowel obstruction after laparoscopic colectomy. An 82-year-old man developed small bowel obstruction on the second day after laparoscopic anterior resection. Emergency relaparoscopy found herniation of the small bowel mesentery into the side holes of the silicon intraabdominal drain, which led to a 90-degree acute turn of the small bo...

Small bowel obstruction is a frequent surgical emergency. Adhesional obstruction is the commonest cause in patients who have had previous abdominal surgery. In those without previous abdominal surgery common causes of obstruction include obstructed hernias and metastatic malignancy involving the small bowel. Rarer causes include small bowel volvulus, stricturing Crohn’s disease, small bowel dia...

We report the unusual case of a 45-year-old woman who presented with multiple episodes of small bowel obstruction. Initial exploratory lap-roscopy did not reveal an etiology of the obstruction. Subsequent upper endoscopy identified a non-obstructing gastric trichobezoar which could not be removed endoscopically but was not thought to be responsible for the small bowel obstruction given its loca...

this is a case of a patient with bowel obstruction , imaging studies were suggestive for pneumatosis intestinalis. clinically diagnosed as adhesion band and pnematosis intestinalis. she underwent laparatomy, enterolysis, obstructionolysis and enterorrhaphy. the patient developed respiratory distress and expired after 2 days. at autopsy we found gray-brown discoloration in the wall of some part ...