Intestinal calculi or enteroliths are rare cause of intestinal obstruction. Most commonly formed in setting of intestinal tuberculosis and crohn`s disease, enteroliths can be formed in variety of conditions causing intestinal strictures. We report a case of 75 year old male, who presented with history of recurrent episodes of obstruction. There was a past history of myocardial infarction 2 year...

absractwe are presenting a case of abdominal tuberculosis who had peritonitis and twolarge enteroliths were removed from the small intestine during laparotomy. followinga full course of medical treatment, she developed small bowel obstruction andtreated by laparotomy & enterolysis but showed no evidence of stricture. we had adiagnostic and management challenge which will be discussed along with...

Abstract Small intestinal diverticula are rare and possibly acquired secondary to bowel dyskinesia, abnormal peristalsis, or high intraluminal pressures. Enterolith formation obstruction a less encountered complication of these diverticula. An elderly man, with no history abdominal surgery, presented 10 days colicky right iliac fossa pain recurrent episodes bilious vomiting. He initially report...

Fig. 2 : CECT abdomen showing pneumobilia. abdomen (erect) showed multiple air fluid levels with pneumobilia and supine view showed large stone (Fig. 1). CECT abdomen revealed enterolith in mid small bowel with proximal jejunal obstruction with collapsed thick walled gall bladder with pneumobilia (Fig. 2) and cholecystoduodenal fistula. Laparoscopy revealed inflamed gut, 5 cms stone was extract...

The surgeon frequently encounters renal and biliary stones but rarely may also encounter enteric stones or enteroliths. An enterolith is a stony foreign body that is formed in the gastrointestinal tract. We present a rare case of multiple, large enteroliths found associated with a longstanding incarcerated incisional hernia.