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Case Reports
[Acute gastric dilatation with superior mesenteric artery syndrome in a young girl with anorexia nervosa].
Acute gastric dilatation is a rare complication of anorexia nervosa which may be fatal in case of gastric perforation. Superior mesenteric artery syndrome may be associated with gastric dilatation. ⋯ Small-bowel obstruction in anorexia nervosa first evokes acute gastric dilatation, and a perforation has to be ruled out by esophagogastrography. Association with superior mesenteric artery syndrome is possible; it does not necessarily lead to surgery.