Abstract
A volvulus, which is torsion of the bowel and its mesentery, is a medical emergency. Small bowel volvulus rarely occurs in adults, although it has been reported in the presence of small bowel diverticulum. Multislice computed tomography (CT) angiography, by demonstrating the mesenteric vessels, can be of help in the diagnosis of small bowel volvulus, especially when CT or gastrointestinal studies fail to show the diverticulum. We present the multislice CT angiography findings of a 64-year-old woman with chronic intermittent volvulus resulting from jejunal diverticulosis, surgically confirmed. To our knowledge, no similar case has been reported previously in the literature.
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Li, XB., Guan, WX. & Gao, Y. Multislice computed tomography angiography findings of chronic small bowel volvulus with jejunal diverticulosis. Jpn J Radiol 28, 469–472 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11604-010-0443-z
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