The term volvulus is derived from the Latin word volvere (“to twist”). A colonic volvulus occurs when a part of the colon twists on its mesentery, resulting in acute, subacute, or chronic colonic obstruction.
Through his work on cadavers, he observed that insertion of a rectal tube detorsed sigmoid volvulus, which led him to propose that all patients with sigmoid volvulus have a rectal tube inserted [2]. By the late nineteenth century, nonoperative treatment was well established. Operative treatment...
Volvulus is one of the most common reasons for bowel destruction. There are two main types of volvuli namely sigmoid volvulus and cecal volvulus. The sigmoid volvulus refers to the twist that takes place in the sigmoid colon, and it is able to spread to the upper area of the bowel. The ...
sigmoid volvulus, cecal volvulus, mesenterium communeWe report a rare case of metachronous cecal and sigmoid volvulus with mesenterium commune. The patient was a 75-year-old institutionalized woman with a history of Hartmann's procedure for sigmoid volvulus. She was referred to our medical center ...
VolvulusA rare case of simultaneous sigmoid and cecal volvulus in a 60-year-old man is documented. The development of both conditions in the same patient simultaneously has not been reported previously.doi:10.1007/BF02552660G. SinghS. K. Gupta...
A Cecal Volvulus with Mobile Sigmoid: A Rare Case PresentationDr. Parveen Kumar
VolvulusCase reportLarge bowel obstruction caused by volvulus poses a life-threatening risk without immediate intervention. Sigmoid colon volvulus is predominant (43鈥 75%), followed by cecal volvulus 10鈥 52%). Synchronous double colonic volvulus is extremely rare, with limited documented cases in ...
Synchronous volvulusSimultaneous volvulusVolvulus is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction in the U.S. Sigmoid colon volvulus is the most frequent, followed by cecal volvulus. The simultaneous occurrence of cecal and sigmoid colon volvulus is extremely unusual. We are reporting what to our knowledge...