Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect
Transmesenteric hernias are extremely rare. A strangulated hernia through a mesenteric opening is a rare operative finding. Preoperative diagnosis still is difficult in spite of the imaging techniques currently available. The authors describe two cases of paediatric patients presenting with bowel ob...
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| author | Nouira F Dhaou Ben Charieg A Ghorbel S Jlidi S Chaouachi B |
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| description | Transmesenteric hernias are extremely rare. A strangulated hernia through a mesenteric opening is a rare operative finding. Preoperative diagnosis still is difficult in spite of the imaging techniques currently available. The authors describe two cases of paediatric patients presenting with bowel obstruction resulting from a congenital mesenteric hernia. The first patient had a 3-cm wide congenital defect in the ileal mesentery through which the sigmoid colon had herniated. The second patient is a newborn infant who presented with symptoms and radiographic evidence of neonatal occlusion. At surgical exploration, a long segment of the small bowel had herniated in a defect in the ileal mesentery. A brief review of epidemiology and anatomy of transmesenteric hernias is included, along with a discussion of the difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of this condition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac18c4d1993b447ba8ea8cca0675faef2022-12-22T01:51:43ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsAfrican Journal of Paediatric Surgery0189-67250974-59982011-01-01817578Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defectNouira FDhaou BenCharieg AGhorbel SJlidi SChaouachi BTransmesenteric hernias are extremely rare. A strangulated hernia through a mesenteric opening is a rare operative finding. Preoperative diagnosis still is difficult in spite of the imaging techniques currently available. The authors describe two cases of paediatric patients presenting with bowel obstruction resulting from a congenital mesenteric hernia. The first patient had a 3-cm wide congenital defect in the ileal mesentery through which the sigmoid colon had herniated. The second patient is a newborn infant who presented with symptoms and radiographic evidence of neonatal occlusion. At surgical exploration, a long segment of the small bowel had herniated in a defect in the ileal mesentery. A brief review of epidemiology and anatomy of transmesenteric hernias is included, along with a discussion of the difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of this condition.http://www.afrjpaedsurg.org/article.asp?issn=0189-6725;year=2011;volume=8;issue=1;spage=75;epage=78;aulast=NouiraBowel obstructionchildrencongenitalinternal hernia |
| spellingShingle | Nouira F Dhaou Ben Charieg A Ghorbel S Jlidi S Chaouachi B Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect African Journal of Paediatric Surgery Bowel obstruction children congenital internal hernia |
| title | Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect |
| title_full | Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect |
| title_fullStr | Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect |
| title_full_unstemmed | Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect |
| title_short | Small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect |
| title_sort | small bowel obstruction caused by congenital transmesenteric defect |
| topic | Bowel obstruction children congenital internal hernia |
| url | http://www.afrjpaedsurg.org/article.asp?issn=0189-6725;year=2011;volume=8;issue=1;spage=75;epage=78;aulast=Nouira |
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