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Laparoscopic gastropexy for acute gastric volvulus: a case report
A Odaka1, K Shimomura, M Fujioka
1Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, Kawagoe, Japan.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|April 22, 1999
Abstract:
A 7-year-old girl presented with an acute gastric volvulus that was reduced with a nasogastric catheter. An anterior gastropexy was undertaken laparoscopically. The gastrocolic omentum was deficient along most of the greater curvature, which had allowed organoaxial volvulus. Two years later, gastric volvulus has not recurred. Laparoscopy is an acceptable approach for the evaluation and treatment of children with acute gastric volvulus.