Recurrent Ileus in a Case of Jejunal Diverticulosis

The clinical and metabolic significance of jejunal diverticula

“…A wide variety of complications other than those already noted have been described, including adhesions or stricture which may produce intestinal obstruction, torsion, or volvulus (D'Abreu, 1944;Johnson, 1945;Porter, 1946), a functional type of intestinal obstruction with no evidence of mechanical blockage and a characteristic thickening of small bowel (Gordinier and Sampson, 1906;Benson, Dixon, and Waugh, 1943;Phillips, 1953;Nelson, 4 Schmitz, and Narsete, 1954; Lowe and Wilkinson, 1959), cyst formation due to occlusion of the mouth of a sac (Gordinier and Sampson, 1906), concretion formation (Klidjian, 1946;Armitage, Fowweather and Johnstone, 1950), pneumoperitoneum (Nanson and Dragan, 1956), traumatic rupture (Butler, 1933;Bagley and Bagley, 1946), diverticulitis (Butler, 1933;Orr and Russell, 1951;Phillips, 1953),intussusception (River and Silverstein, 1951), carcinoma within the diverticulum (Benson, Dixon, and Waugh, 1943), enterolith formation (Renaud and Renaud, 1921;Terry and Mugler, 1921), and intestinal obstruction due to an enterolith being dislodged into the lumen of the bowel (Watson, 1924;Christ, 1932). Foreign bodies may lodge in diverticula, and reports have included ingested bones (Ogloblina, 1931), food particles (Treves, 1960), and parasites (Goinard and Courrier, 1929;Rosedale, 1935).…”