HYPOTHESIS Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) can be used to diagnose subacute intestinal obstruction in patients with otherwise negative imaging studies. PATIENTS AND METHODS Nine patients with symptoms consistent with intermittent small-bowel obstruction who received a VCE and ultimately required surgical intervention. RESULTS Patients were identified who had symptoms consistent with subacute ...

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...

There are several options for surgical treatment of large bowel obstruction caused by cancer, depending on location of obstruction, intraoperative local findings (perforation, peritonitis, bowel dilatation proximal to obstruction) and patients' condition. Resection and anastomosis as one stage surgery would be prefered procedure. Anastomotic leakage, on the other hand, highly elevates risk of m...

BACKGROUND Early bowel obstruction is not a rare complication of gastrectomy, and it may require re-operation in some cases. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 71-year-old woman who underwent a total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction for a massive gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Postoperatively, she was making good progress and started consuming meals on postoperative day 3. Ho...

Introduction: It’s a rare report about intestinal obstruction caused by barium retention after small bowel radiography of oral barium. An 83-year-old woman was admitted for bile duct cancer with metal stent and incomplete intestinal obstruction .The patient ever did upper gastrointestinal barium meal examination which showed the mucosa of descending part of duodenum was unclear and contrast med...

We performed total enterolysis in 130 patients with encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) between 1993 and 2007. The postoperative survival rate was 93.1%. However, 33 of the patients (25.4%) required additional surgery for recurrent bowel obstruction. To prevent recurrent bowel obstruction, we investigated various techniques following total enterolysis. In 7 patients, we employed the splint...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This study aimed to systematically review small bowel obstruction (SBO), focusing on recent changes in diagnosis/therapy. RECENT FINDINGS SBO incidence is about 350,000/annum in the USA. Etiologies include adhesions (65%), hernias (10%), neoplasms (5%), Crohn's disease (5%), and other (15%). Bowel dilatation occurs proximal to obstruction primarily from swallowed air and sec...

Mr XY is a 75-year-old man with known recurrent rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma in the pelvis. He had an emergency Hartmann’s procedure 2 years earlier for a bowel perforation caused by tumor. The patient had been offered a surgical intervention 3 months earlier for the recurrent pelvic mass visualized on CT, but he declined any additional surgical intervention. No metastatic disease was noted at t...

Early diagnosis of strangulation obstruction is very important for surgeons because delayed diagnosis often leads to severe complications. Thirty patients underwent an operation because of small bowel obstruction between April, 1993 and December, 1999. In the present study, we examined the differences in clinical findings between simple obstruction and strangulation obstruction. In addition, we...

Deep endometriosis (DE) is an uncommon cause of bowel obstruction; preoperative diagnosis a challenging task due to its rarity and pathological confirmation. Surgery the appropriate treatment complications are common. A 26-year-old Latin female was admitted emergency department with 72 hours history abdominal pain associated inability pass stool or gas, vomiting nausea. Abdominal distention wit...