title: A rare etiology of acute abdominal syndrome in adults: Gastric volvulus - Cases series.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gastric volvulus is a rare surgical emergency with a high mortality rate that requires urgent surgical management.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 19-year-old male and 51-year-old female patient underwent emergency surgery with a prediagnosis of acute abdomen syndrome, and a 60-year-old female patient underwent elective surgery due to diaphragmatic hernia. Abdominal exploration revealed gastric volvulus together with perforation in received emergency surgery patients, and a mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus due to diaphragmatic defect in third patient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gastric volvulus is classified into four subgroups depending on the mechanism of development, and organoaxial form is the most common type of gastric volvulus. The most challenging step in diagnosing gastric volvulus is the consideration of this diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preoperative diagnosis is often difficult, and its management involves surgical correction of the pathology followed by institution of resuscitative treatment.
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Turkey. Electronic address: fatihaltintoprak@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Altintoprak
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Research and Educational Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Turkey.
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Yalkin
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Research and Educational Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Turkey.
authors.forename: Enis
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dikicier
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Research and Educational Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Turkey.
authors.forename: Taner
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kivilcim
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Research and Educational Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yasemin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gunduz
authors.affiliation: Sakarya University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Turkey.
authors.forename: Orhan Veli
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Ozkan
keywords: Acute abdomen syndrome; Gastric volvulus; Volvulus