Strangulation of the colon complicating acute pancreatitis.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report a patient with alcohol-induced necrotizing pancreatitis who developed a severe ileus followed by incarceration of a portion of the transverse colon within a ventral hernia. Laparotomy 9 days after the onset of symptoms revealed infarction of the transverse colon and infection of the pancreas. This is the first report of a case of acute pancreatitis that led to a strangulated ventral hernia of the colon. We believe that the enteric organisms that infected the pancreas originated in the incarcerated transverse colon.
Medical subject headings
- Colon
- Hernia, Ventral
- Infarction
- Pancreatitis