Abstract Colonic volvulus accounts for approximately 5% of cases large bowel obstruction. Sigmoid is commonest (75%), followed caecal (15%). Synchronous the caecum and sigmoid rare, with five reported in literature. We report two a London teaching hospital managed within 6 months. Both male patients (aged 72 79 years) had presented to emergency department on multiple occasions (2-5 times preced...

The mothers were quite unselected, and one of the nursing sisters felt that it would be a good idea to screen mothers before admission and omit the likely trouble-makers. In practice it would be difficult to do this without considerable knowledge of the mother and child; furthermore, 22 out of the 27 mothers in the experimental group who were thought to be emotionally disturbed when the first h...

section was performed by myself and the volvulus again reduced. To prevent a recurrence of the twisting, the colon was stitched to the abdominal parieties. It was greatly liypertrophied and harboured a mass of constipated feces which probably caused the volvulus. The patient gave a history of long continued obstinate constipation. He returned again in the following March when I performed abdomi...