Current surgery
-
Review Case Reports
Adult malrotation: a case report and review of the literature.
Midgut malrotation is an anomaly of fetal intestinal rotation that usually presents in the first month of life. It is rare for malrotation to present in adulthood. Symptomatic patients present either acutely with bowel obstruction and intestinal ischemia with a midgut or cecal volvulus, or chronically with vague abdominal pain. ⋯ These symptoms are caused by peritoneal bands first described by Ladd in 1932. These bands run from the cecum to the right lateral abdominal wall. We present a case of malrotation in an adult who presented with chronic abdominal pain.