Intestinal malrotation presenting outside the neonatal period.

Intestinal malrotation presenting outside the neonatal period.

We report 37 patients ranging in age from 1 month to 14 years treated for intestinal malrotation during a five year period. The main presenting features consisted of intermittent attacks of vomiting (15 patients), failure to thrive (seven), and recurrent colicky abdominal pain (seven). The diagnosis was confirmed by gastrointestinal contrast studies in all but three patients. A standard Ladd's ...

Intestinal obstruction in the neonatal period.

INTESTINAL obstruction in the newborn infant may seem at fist consideration to represent a rather small segment of neonatal pathology. Yet it is responsible for most of the surgery in the newborn period and for the most discouraging mortality figures of any of the neonatal surgical entities within reach of therapy. The purpose of this discussion is to provide that perspective which could lead t...

Recurrent intestinal obstruction in the neonatal period.

Between 1956 and 1962, 238 newborn infants underwent laparotomy for intestinal obstruction at the Surgical Department of the Children's Hospital in Munich. This paper is concerned with 24 cases where a second operation was necessary because of persistence or recurrence of intestinal obstruction. Table 1 shows the initial pathology and the findings when the abdomen was reopened. The commonest ca...

Cecal volvulus associated with intestinal malrotation presenting as postoperative intestinal obstruction.

OBJECTIVE To report a case of intestinal malrotation predisposing to cecal volvulus following nonabdominal surgery in an adult. PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 23-year-old male with known anorectal malformation developed a postoperative intestinal obstruction following percutaneous nephrolithotomy for left renal calculus. Computed tomography of the abdomen revealed a grossly dilated cecum (9 ...

Neonatal Currarino's syndrome presenting as intestinal obstruction.