Images for surgeons. Strangulation of the small bowel mesentery and internal hernia due to the connecting tube of a gastric band.
Mills
Jane K
JK
Department of Surgery, Launceston General Hospital, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Zakon
Joseph
J
Hung Nguyen
M
M
D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D046449:Hernia, Abdominal / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply; D008643:Mesentery / Q000098:blood supply*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D011859:Radiography; D015898:Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed