Obstructing enterolith as presenting feature in Crohn's disease.
We report a 54-year-old woman with Crohn's disease presenting with intestinal obstruction due to an enterolith impacted at the site of a small bowel stricture. The diseased bowel was successfully resected by laparoscopy-assisted surgery.
Shah
Sudeep R
SR
Divisions of GI Surgery, P D Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center, Mumbai 400 016. shahsudeep@hotmail.com
Bhaduri
Anita
A
Desai
Devendra C
DC
Abraham
Philip
P
Joshi
Anand
A
D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed