Abstract: A review of twelve cases of volvulus of the cecum and ascending colon is presented. Such volvulus accounted for 0.8 per cent of all cases of intestinal obstruction and 10.5 per cent of all cases of intestinal volvulus. The clinical findings were those of low small bowel obstruction. In 50 per cent of the patients the involved bowel was viable and required only deflation and derotation. In the remaining patients right hemicolectomy or segmental ileocolectomy was carried out since the bowel was nonviable. The mortality for the entire series was 16.6 per cent.
Publication Year: 1973
Publication Date: 1973-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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