Total small bowel volvulus on complete common mesentery is a rotation anomaly of the primitive intestinal loop, it is a classical pathology in the neonatal period, and exceptional in adults. It corresponds to an interruption of the intestinal rotation at 180°, thus constituting a...
Mesenteric adenolymphitis is an inflammation of a part of the abdominal wall. It mainly affects children and can be of viral, bacterial or parasitic origin. Treatment is mainly symptomatic except in the case of bacterial origin where antibiotics must be used.also known as mesente...
Caecum volvulus is, in frequency, the second part of the colon concerned by volvulus after the sigmoid and before the transverse colon. This pathology occurs in the cecum with abnormal mobility The mechanism of volvulus can be summarized in 2 either by torsion or tilting. The cli...
Pinworm infection is highly contagious considered to be the most common helminth infection, The association of this parasitic infestation with pathogenesis of acute appendicitis had been studied for many years, and is still unclear. We present three cases of enterobiasis of appen...
Meckel's diverticulum is the partial persistence of the omphalo mesenteric duct. Its complications are rare. The diagnosis is most often per operative. We report the case of a 54-year-old patient admitted to the emergency room for a peritonitis picture. The clinical examination...
The occurrence of a traumatic diaphragmatic hernia is a classic complication of abdominal trauma. Unknown in almost half of the cases during the initial trauma, the diagnosis was made at the time of a complication. The left diaphragmaticdome is the most frequently affected. Tensi...
Introduction: Esophageal perforation represents one of the most serious and difficult emergencies that the surgeon may be confronted with. Most often, these are iatrogenic perforations, especially since the advent of endoscopic therapies. However, in about 15% of cases, as in the...