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A Mouse Model of Intestinal Partial Obstruction
Published on: March 5, 2018
Small bowel obstruction secondary to a liberated Meckel's enterolith
Vias Demetriou1, David McKean, James Briggs
1Vias Demetriou Ltd, Oxford, UK. viasdemetriou@gmail.com
Abstract:
A 30-year-old woman presented with a short history of abdominal pain which rapidly progressed to absolute constipation. An abdominal radiograph demonstrated a paucity of bowel gas and a 4 cm lesion with concentric laminar calcification projected over the pelvis. A CT scan revealed a 4 cm giant Meckel's diverticulum, downstream of which a laminated mass was impacted in the lumen of the distal ileum causing small bowel obstruction. Subsequent surgery confirmed small bowel obstruction secondary to impaction of a liberated enterolith from the giant Meckel's diverticulum. The history, imaging appearances and surgical findings in this case are classical of this unusual but treatable condition.
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