Intestinal malrotation is a rare pathological situation consisting of non-rotation or incomplete rotation of the primitive intestine. Due to the abnormal caecal position inflicted by malrotation, diagnosis of acute appendicitis is difficult. Ultrasonography (US) and Computed Tomography (CT) are relevant and complementary imaging techniques for establishing an otherwise elusive diagnosis. We pre...

A 2-year-old boy was admitted with diagnosis of diabetes debut, with blood glucose of 500 mg% on admission, without ketosis or metabolic acidosis. He also presented bilious vomiting and brownish bloody stools. He was operated with a presumptive diagnosis of acute intestinal obstruction. The final diagnosis was volvulus, secondary to congenital malrotation. After surgery, he normalized blood sug...

Intestinal malrotation is defined as an alteration in the rotation and fixation of intestine during fetal stage. It can present with a wide clinical spectrum ranging from acute volvulus to chronic duodenal obstruction. Its presentation therefore also very varied, asymptomatic patients whom diagnosis be made finding, extremely serious symptoms such midgut volvulus. Midgut most severe manifesta...

Heterotaxy syndrome (HS) is a congenital disorder resulting from an abnormal arrangement of visceral organs across the normal left-right axis in the embryonic period. HS is usually associated with multiple anomalies, including defects of the major cardiovascular system and the extracardiovascular system such as intestinal malrotation, abnormal lung lobulation, bronchus anomalies, and pancreatic...

Malrotation of the midgut is generally regarded as paediatric pathology with the majority of patients presenting in childhood. The diagnosis is rare in adults, which sometimes leads to delay in diagnosis and treatment. A high index of suspicion is therefore required when dealing with patients of any age group with abdominal symptoms. We present a case of a 55-year old man who presented with an ...

Most infants with repaired gastroschisis develop normally and remain in good health. About 10% of patients with gastroschisis have other malformations. We report a case of choledocholithiasis and intestinal malrotation in an adolescent with repaired gastroschisis. A 17-year-old girl presented with fever, jaundice, and abdominal pain. She had undergone an operation to repair gastroschisis at bir...

Malrotation is defined as an anomaly of rotation and fixation of the midgut. It can lead to acute intestinal obstruction and is a rare but important cause of bowel obstruction in adults. A 76-year-old man was brought to the Emergency Room (ER) due to vomiting, anorexia and abdominal pain over the past three days. Routine abdominal X-ray revealed interposition of the hepatic flexure of the colon...

INTRODUCTION The Situs viscerum inversus associated with anomalies of intestinal rotation and fixation is an extremely rare condition. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of colon cancer associated with intestinal malrotation and mesenterium ileocolicum commune. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old man with a 2-month history of diarrhea associated with abdominal pain and weight los...