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Strangulation of the colon complicating acute pancreatitis
S Tenner1, S G Silverman, D Brooks
1Center For Pancreatic Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|September 1, 1995
Abstract:
We report a patient with alcohol-induced necrotizing pancreatitis who developed a severe ileus followed by incarceration of a portion of the transverse colon within a ventral hernia. Laparotomy 9 days after the onset of symptoms revealed infarction of the transverse colon and infection of the pancreas. This is the first report of a case of acute pancreatitis that led to a strangulated ventral hernia of the colon. We believe that the enteric organisms that infected the pancreas originated in the incarcerated transverse colon.