Cancer of the descending colon, complicated by intestinal obstruction and left post-traumatic hernia of the diaphragm

Abstract

Annotation. The article presented a rare clinical case of a successful treatment of cancer of the descending colon, that is complicated by acute obstructive intestinal obstruction on the background of post-traumatic left diaphragmatic hernia in a 68-year-old patient. The result of surgical treatment indicates some possible unexpected intraoperative difficulties that the surgeon might be facing with during the process of a surgery. It is noticed that in surgery for a cancer of the descending colon, had been complicated by an acute intestinal obstruction, it is still necessary to find the cause of abdominal pain, had been accompanied by bloating, lack of stool and gas, vomiting “feils”, one of which may be postpartum of left hernia of the diaphragm.