Congenital band compression syndrome should be considered in cases diagnosed prenatally or postnatally as intestinal obstruction. Presently described is a report of newborn admitted to hospital with abdominal distension and bilious vomiting. A suspected intestinal obstruction had been diagnosed in prenatal examination. Surgery revealed congenital band compressing ileal segments and preventing t...

Small bowel obstruction is a common clinical problem presenting with abdominal distention, colicky pain, absolute constipation and bilious vomiting. There are numerous causes, most commonly attributed to an incarcerated hernia, adhesions or obstructing mass secondary to malignancy. Here we present an unusual cause of a small bowel obstruction secondary to an incarcerated incisional hernia in as...

Jejunoileal atresia is a congenital anomaly that is characterized clinically by bilious vomiting and abdominal distension. It has been associated with various congenital anomalies but its association with mesenteric cyst has only been reported sporadically. As this is a very rare entity, it is being reported with a brief review of literature.

A 17-year-old girl presented with bilious vomiting and abdominal pain to the surgery department. The history was positive for trichotillomania and trichophagia. A CT scan showed a mass in the stomach, which was highly suspicious for a gastric bezoar. Drooping parts of the bezoar caused a duodenal obstruction with secondary acute pancreatitis. The bezoar was removed via a laparoscopically perfor...

Neonates referred from various sources with single or more episodes of bilious vomiting undergo radiological investigation and ultrasound examination to exclude malrotation and volvulus. Although many of these will have a normal study and feed well afterwards or may have other diagnoses, nevertheless, approximately 6 to 8% will need corrective surgery for malrotation [1,2]. Rarely an older chil...

‘Hippocrates’ the father of modern medicine; characterized ‘pleuritis’ by some demarcating features such as chest pain, fever, chills with shivering, dry cough associated breathing difficulties orthopnoea & tachypnoea. Pleuritis can be differentiated into its marked tributaries like sanguineous, bilious, which is a subject to well precised diagnosis avoid forthcoming execrable complications ple...

Roux-O reconstruction in Y-bypass surgery is a rare and potentially devastating complication that can often be misdiagnosed. This occurs when the biliopancreatic loop anastomoses to gastric pouch with consequent evolution of patient intestinal obstruction, abdominal pain, nausea and/or bilious vomiting. We described A 27-year-old male who underwent for morbid obesity this complication. In concl...