Volvulus of the stomach in childhood: The spectrum of the disease

Abstract

Not infrequently, gastric volvulus in children fails to exhibit the full gamut of signs and symptoms such as abdominal distension, vomiting, pain, and retching. For this, as well as for other stated reasons, symptomatic gastric volvulus in infancy and childhood may not be as rare as is commonly assumed.

Diaphragmatic Hernia with Atypical Presentation - A Case Series

“…A careful analysis of chest films and a thorough search for connecting bowel segments passing through the diaphragmatic defect may help to avoid incorrect diagnosis and an undesirable delay in treatment 19 .…”

An unusual cause of vomiting: chronic gastric volvulus due to old diaphragmatic defect

“…[2][3][4] The former is associated with various predisposing factors like eventration of the diaphragm, hiatus hernia, asplenia, absence of ligaments, etc. A mesenteroaxial volvulus is less common and occurs when the stomach rotates from right to left or left to right along the axis from the lesser to a greater curvature.…”

“…Among the associated problems diaphragmatic defects predominate. [1][2][3][4] Chronic gastric volvulus through and old diaphragmatic defect is an unusual presentation as was our case where the patient was found to have a past history of spinal tuberculosis along with thoracic spine fixation 1 year back, probably leading to the diaphragmatic defect.…”

Acute mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus and congenital diaphragmatic hernia

“…In 1579, Ambroise Pare´reported the first case of an AGV caused by a sword injury in the left diaphragm [2]. In 1866, Berti published a case of death secondary to an isolated AGV [3], and the first surgical correction of AGV was published in 1897 by Berg [4].…”