We present a rare clinical observation of an 11-year-old boy who, as result fall from height, received severe combined injury the chest, abdomen, retroperitoneal space, which was accompanied by contusion lungs with hydrothorax, right kidney, pancreas and duodenal rupture development traumatic shock III degree, bile peritonitis. It required emergency surgery, intensive care patient’s chronic ref...

Introduction: The upper gastro-intestinal bleed is one of the most common indication for endoscopy. There are various reasons same and include gastric or duodenal ulcer, erosive gastritis duodenitis, esophagitis, mallory weiss tear, malignancy etc. Many prisoner feign to be having hematemesis but their history clinical presentation does not match with it.

Congenital duodenal obstruction is usually characterized by onset of early vomiting due to high bowel obstruction. Presentation of congenital duodenal obstruction with acute gastrointestinal bleeding is very uncommon. We present an unusual case of congenital intrinsic duodenal obstruction associated with the Down's syndrome presenting with hematemesis secondary to duodenitis. This is a rare pre...

Small intestine can be obstructed by mechanical obstructions (strangulations, intraluminal masses) and functional obstructions (proximal enteritis, anterior enteritisi, duodenitis-jejunitis). Despite some differences between proximal enteritis and surgical diseases of the small intestine, there is no single distinguishing feature. Borborygmi are usually diminished or absent in all small intesti...

2 Acute Duodenitis and Enteritis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 General Characteristics (Macari and Balthazar 2001; Thoeni and Cello 2006; D’Almeida et al. 2008; Macari et al. 2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Acute Infectious Conditions of the Duodenum and Small Intestine (Mazzie et al. 2007) . . . . . . . 2.3 Vascular Acute Inflammatory Conditions of the Duodenum and Small ...