Background . Acute adhesive small bowel obstruction (AASBO) is a common surgical emergency requiring immediate interventions. AASBO usual indication for both resection and adhesiolysis. Postoperative adhesions cause 60% of obstructions. Materials methods An analysis treatment outcomes presented 197 acute patients; 63 patients had urgent laparotomy, 134 were scheduled laparoscopy. The examinatio...

Though tuberculosis (TB) among pregnant women is not unusual in our country, documented cases of congenital tuberculosis are rare. Diagnosis is often difficult as signs and symptoms in a neonate are non- specific. Maternal history of tuberculosis is often missed, as many of them are asymptomatic. Here we present a neonate who was operated in view of intestinal obstruction which intra operativel...

Deep endometriosis (DE) is an uncommon cause of bowel obstruction; preoperative diagnosis a challenging task due to its rarity and pathological confirmation. Surgery the appropriate treatment complications are common. A 26-year-old Latin female was admitted emergency department with 72 hours history abdominal pain associated inability pass stool or gas, vomiting nausea. Abdominal distention wit...

Gastrointestinal histoplasmosis (GIH) without pulmonary and bone marrow involvement is very rare worldwide. It can be misdiagnosed as intestinal tuberculosis or Crohn's disease. There are just few case reports of GIH in patients with a positive HIV antibody test. Here, we report a patient who presented to our hospital with repeated intestinal obstruction. The suspicious diagnosis was intestinal...

Colorectal carcinomas are rare disease in the pediatric population, especially without known risk factors. The present article reports the case of a 15 year old boy with sporadic colon carcinoma who presented with acute intestinal obstruction symptoms during a soccer match. An annular colonic mass proximal to the hepatic flexure causing mechanical obstruction was observed on abdominal enhanced ...

Malrotation is defined as an anomaly of rotation and fixation of the midgut. It can lead to acute intestinal obstruction and is a rare but important cause of bowel obstruction in adults. A 76-year-old man was brought to the Emergency Room (ER) due to vomiting, anorexia and abdominal pain over the past three days. Routine abdominal X-ray revealed interposition of the hepatic flexure of the colon...

SUMMARY From April L 989 to March 1989 !here were 13 patients with small intestinal volvulus 23%, or all palients operated for small intestinal obstruction.All were male, age between 6 to 75, without any history of abdominal operation. Mortality was 38, 5% and morbidity included, intraabdominal abscesses, recurrent obstruction and wound infection were observed. Being the 3rd cause of intestin...

context bowel obstruction is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. because of heterogeneity of patients’ population and variety of causes, therapeutic strategies are not standardized, so treatment of intestinal obstruction is a surgical challenge in many cases. a traditional medicine approach could help detect some issues that were ignored by modern medicine. one of the major schools ...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical and pathological characteristics of patients with intestinal tuberculosis. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients with intestinal tuberculosis diagnosed between January 1995 and December 2004 inclusive. RESULTS The median age of the 13 male and 9 female patients was 53 years (range, 12-81 years). Ninete...

Mucormycosis is a rare but highly invasive opportunistic fungal infection. Gastrointestinal disease although uncommon is highly fatal. We report a case of jejunal mucormycosis in a 24 year old undernourished female with preceding surgical intervention for acute intestinal obstruction of tubercular etiology. On 8th post-operative day, she developed oozing from suture line, prompting exploratory ...