Abstract:A 72-year-old woman was carried in our hospital with the chief complaints of abdominal distention and vomiting. The patient was diagnosed as occlusive ileus due to a rectal cancer and temporally double barrelled colostomy with sigmoid colon was performed. After that, although the patient had sufficient evacuation, a progressing abdominal distention was found. Abdominal CT revealed a locally enlarged digestive tract at a location where the lower abdominal distention was seen. The patient was diagnosed as having… Show more
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