Extraluminal Amyloidoma of the Pelvic Cavity Causing Large Bowel Obstruction

Extraluminal Amyloidoma of the Pelvic Cavity Causing Large Bowel Obstruction

AMYLOIDOSIS IS A GROUP OF DIVERSE DISORDERS THAT FALL INTO SEVERAL MAJOR CATEGORIES: primary, secondary, dialysis-associated, and hereditary forms. Clinically, amyloidosis may be categorized as localized or systemic. The gastrointestinal tract is among the most common places for deposition of amyloid, but large, localized amyloid deposits are an uncommon occurrence and rarely cause extraluminal...

A case of endometriosis causing acute large bowel obstruction

INTRODUCTION Endometriosis is a gynaecological condition which produce symptoms such as pelvic pain, abnormal menstruation and infertility. Intestinal endometriosis can occur however endometriosis causing acute large bowel obstruction is extremely rare. PRESENTATION OF CASE We present a 37-year-old lady with acute large bowel obstruction caused by endometriosis. Despite initial endoscopic dec...

Bowel obstruction and pelvic mass.

686 CMAJ, April 5, 2011, 183(6) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors A42-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a four-day history of severe constipation, bilious vomiting and colicky abdominal pain. Her symptoms started with the onset of menses but differed from the crampy dysmenorrhea for which she had taken over-the-counter analgesics for many years. She ha...

Extraluminal bowel gas.

Large bowel obstruction.

I T HAS LONG BEEN MY IMPRESSION, together with others, that the state of competence of the ileocecal valve is the key to the radiographic picture of mechanical large bowel obstruction. 8~‘4~i9*2’ Continued observation has reinforced some of my previous conclusions. 27 At that time, I described three patterns of obstruction (Fig. 1). Type II obstruction, that associated with incompetence of the ...