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Small bowel obstruction due to disease of epiploic appendage
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|May 1, 1981
Abstract:
Primary disease of an epiploic appendage is rare. Small bowel obstruction is an unusual complication of such disease due to bands or adhesions caused by torsion or inflammation. A 49-year old man presented with small bowel obstruction and was found to have a band from a necrotic epiploic appendage adherent to mesentery, obstructing the ileum. The band was released and the epiploic appendage removed.