Utility of the CT Scan in Diagnosing Midgut Volvulus in Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain.
Symptomatic intestinal malrotation first presenting in the adults is rare. Midgut volvulus is the most common complication of malrotation in the adults. Because of more differential diagnosis, Computed Tomography (CT) scan can play an important role in the evaluation of patients with this abnormality. The whirl pattern around the superior mesenteric artery found on CT scan in patients with midgut volvulus is pathognomonic and diagnostic. We describe a case of intestinal malrotation complicated by midgut volvulus in an adult patient. The preoperative CT findings were pathognomonic.
Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Blood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran.
Ehsan
0000-0002-4713-292X
E
Shahverdi
Department of Surgery, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mehdi
M
Morshedi
Department of Medicine, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
Maryam
0000-0002-4629-2374
M
Allahverdi Khani
Department of Radiology, Boo Ali Hospital, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad
M
Baradaran Jamili
Department of Microbiology, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Fatemeh
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Shafizadeh Barmi