Small Bowel Volvulus Complicated by Bowel Infarction

Abstract

Teaching Point: Torsion of a segment of the small bowel and its mesentery, together with closed loop obstruction and absent enhancement of paper-thin small bowel walls, is an alarm sign for small bowel volvulus complicated by acute bowel infarction.

Keywords

• abdominal computed tomography
• small bowel volvulus
• small bowel infarction