background: mesocolic hernias are extremely rare. their exact incidence is still unknown. the clinical features are nonspecific and range from bilious vomiting and chronic abdominal pain exacerbated by meals, to asymptomatic presentations incidentally discovered during surgery. preoperative diagnosis still is difficult in spite of imaging techniques currently available. case report: in this stu...

BACKGROUND Congenital duodenal obstruction is one of the commonest causes of neonatal intestinal obstruction. We are presenting our 15-year experience by analyzing clinical spectrum and outcome in neonates with duodenal obstruction admitted at our center. MATERIAL AND METHODS The hospital records of all neonates admitted with duodenal obstruction from June 2000 to June 2015 were reviewed. The...

Abstract Background In neonates, bilious vomiting is considered malrotation with midgut volvulus (MV) until proven otherwise, given its associated high morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis time-critical, requiring prompt identification to avoid complications. Many of these patients are described as clinically well at time presentation, possibly delaying definitive management. Objectives This ...

Canthariasis is a human/ animal infestation by larval stages of coleopteran insects - the beetles. This study reports rare case gastrointestinal canthariasis caused Alphitobiusdiaperinus. A six-year-old boy presented with complaints pain abdomen associated non-bilious, non-blood-stained vomiting for 15 days and history passage worm-like creatures via stools occasionally in vomitus. All investig...

Trichobezoars are rare masses of hair resulting from plucking (trichotillomania) and eating (trichophagia). Few the may also be carried by peristalsis into duodenum. This condition is known as Rapunzel syndrome. Complications include gastric perforation, small bowel obstruction pancreatitis. Here authors present a case 20-year old female patient who presented with complaints abdominal pain, ear...

a 2 years and 9 months old boy attended to a gastroenterology clinic of pediatric hospital for investigation of recurrent and intractable vomiting. he had post prandial, non-projectile, non-bilious emesis since past 2 years. since the onset of illness, he was carried to many doctors and underwent extensive laboratory investigations. because all of the science lab and imaging work up for etiolog...

A 1-day-old male baby, weighing 2kg, presented with bilious vomiting and a mass at umbilicus covered by abnormally thickened base of umbilicus (hernia of umbilical cord). The mother was not on any antenatal follow-up. The delivery was spontaneous vaginal at home. On examination abdomen was scaphoid. Abdominal radiograph showed three air fluid levels indicative of associated small bowel atresia....

An 18-month-old male infant presented with intermittent non-bilious vomiting with pain abdomen for last six months. There was history of localized abdominal distension which gets relieved partially, with vomiting. Patient was born at full term and had no previous medical or surgical history. On examination, patient’s weight was 8.8 kg. Biochemical profile was normal. X-ray abdomen revealed gast...

A 70-yr-old woman complained of left sided chest pain and non-bilious vomiting for four days after taking a gastric bloating agent for an upper gastrointestinal study. The chest radiography revealed gastric air-fluid levels and bowel loops in the left thoracic cavity. An emergency thoracotomy was performed. The abdominal organs (stomach, spleen, splenic flexure of the colon) were in the left th...