1. Transverse colon volvulus presenting as 'inverted' coffee-bean sign
- Author
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Chia-Man Chou, Ming-Huei Chen, and Chieh-Chung Lin
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Cerebral Palsy ,Plain film ,Transverse colon ,Physical examination ,Anatomy ,medicine.disease ,Volvulus ,Cerebral palsy ,Apex (geometry) ,Surgery ,Radiography ,Absent bowel sounds ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,medicine ,Humans ,business ,Child ,Sign (mathematics) ,Colon, Transverse ,Intestinal Volvulus - Abstract
A 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy had a history of fever, diarrhoea and progressive bilious vomiting for 2 days. Physical examination revealed absent bowel sounds and peritoneal sign. An abdominal plain film showed a ‘V-shaped’ loop of the dilated large intestine with the apex pointing ‘downward’ (figure 1), rather than the typical …
- Published
- 2011