Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Surgery, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Malaysia. nikkosai@yahoo.co.uk
  • 2 Department of Surgery, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Malaysia
  • 3 Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 4 Department of Anatomy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Malaysia
PMID: 25257156 DOI: 10.14712/18059694.2014.45

Abstract

Small bowel obstruction is a common clinical problem presenting with abdominal distention, colicky pain, absolute constipation and bilious vomiting. There are numerous causes, most commonly attributed to an incarcerated hernia, adhesions or obstructing mass secondary to malignancy. Here we present an unusual cause of a small bowel obstruction secondary to an incarcerated incisional hernia in association with an acute organoaxial gastric volvulus.

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