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Cecal Volvulus Resolved Spontaneously
- Source :
- Internal Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Cecal volvulus is an uncommon cause of colonic obstruction. First-line treatment for cecal volvulus is surgery, as nonoperative management is rarely achievable. We herein report an extremely rare case of a patient with spontaneously resolved cecal volvulus; no recurrence occurred without elective surgery. A 47-year-old woman presented with acute lower abdominal pain. She was misdiagnosed with small bowel obstruction and treated conservatively. A few hours later, she was correctly diagnosed with cecal volvulus. Subsequently, her symptoms and computed tomography findings of cecal volvulus completely disappeared. She refused elective surgery, but no recurrence occurred during five months of follow-up.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Cecal volvulus
Computed tomography
Case Report
conservative treatment
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
bowel dilatation
digestive system
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Lower abdominal pain
Rare case
parasitic diseases
Internal Medicine
medicine
Cecal Diseases
Humans
Elective surgery
Nonoperative management
skin and connective tissue diseases
spontaneous
mobile cecum syndrome
medicine.diagnostic_test
integumentary system
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
digestive system diseases
Surgery
Abdominal Pain
Bowel obstruction
Colonic obstruction
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Female
cecal volvulus
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Intestinal Obstruction
Intestinal Volvulus
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13497235
- Volume :
- 60
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9109274b99fe87b1218bc16976f75324