RT Journal
A1 Avgerinos DV, Llaguna OH, Friedman RL
T1 A unique case of recurrent metachronous volvulus of the gastrointestinal tract
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2009
FD December 21
VO 144
IS 12
SP 1176
OP 1178
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2009.206
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.206
AB Colonic volvulus is an uncommon disease that predisposes patients to bowel obstruction in both the adult and pediatric population. The international literature offers few reports of synchronous or metachronous volvulus of 2 organs of the gastrointestinal tract. We describe a unique case of a patient who presented with recurrent metachronous volvulus of the sigmoid colon, cecum, and stomach. The patient underwent multiple operations for bowel obstruction, lysis of adhesions, and colon resection. The interesting intraoperative findings were a very long mesentery and peritoneal attachments of the intraabdominal gastrointestinal organs that made the stomach and colon extremely mobile and thus susceptible to volvulus. Prophylactic pexis of the cecum and the stomach during the first operation, in light of the elongated mesentery, may have prevented the subsequent episodes of volvulus.