Twist without a Turn: A Rare Case Report of Mal-Rotated Gut with Caecal and Ascending Colon Volvulus in an Adult

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Vimlendra Kumar Chaudhary Anubhav Vindal Manu Vats Sanchit Katyal Megha Meena Gautam Chellani

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Anubhav Vindal
Professor, Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

A B S T R A C T

Midgut malrotation is a pathology seen in approximately 1:500 live births. It is an anomaly of fetal intestinal rotation that usually presents in the first month of life. It is rare for malrotation to present in adulthood. Symptomatic patients present either acutely with intestinal obstruction and ischemia with a midgut or caecal volvulus, or chronically with vague abdominal pain. In adult life, it is mostly diagnosed incidentally during a radiological investigation or during surgery for an unrelated condition as it is generally asymptomatic in adults. We present a rare case of a patient who presented to us with obstruction due to a mal-rotated gut with caecal and ascending colon volvulus with Ladd’s bands and was operated in our institution.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 27, Sep 2023
Accepted: Thu 12, Oct 2023
Published: Mon 23, Oct 2023

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© 2023 Anubhav Vindal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.AJSCR.2023.03.03