Severe abdominal pain and vomiting
Diagnosis?
Diagnosis?
Small bowel obstruction
Features of small bowel obstruction include the central position of gas-filled and distended loops of bowel.
The white lines passing across the full width of the bowel are 'valvulae conniventes' - these are only found in the small bowel.
Features of small bowel obstruction include the central position of gas-filled and distended loops of bowel.
The white lines passing across the full width of the bowel are 'valvulae conniventes' - these are only found in the small bowel.
Small bowel obstruction (SBO) accounts for 80% of all mechanical intestinal obstruction, the remaining 20% results from a large bowel obstruction.
It has a mortality rate of ~5%.
It has a mortality rate of ~5%.
The valvulae conniventes, also known as Kerckring folds/valves, plicae circulares or just small bowel folds, are the mucosal folds of the small intestine
starting from the second part of the duodenum, they are large and thick at the jejunum and considerably decrease in size distally in the ileum to disappear entirely in the distal ileal bowel loops.
They result in a classical appearance on abdominal radiographs, barium studies and CT scans.
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