An adhesion-related small bowel obstruction occurring within 36 h of a total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Sonya Pratik Shah; Neha Shah; Hamoun Rozati; Amit Thakrar
- Source
- Case Reports. 2014:bcr2013201507-bcr2013201507
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Abdominal pain
Vomiting
Ovariectomy
medicine.medical_treatment
Adhesion (medicine)
Tissue Adhesions
Hysterectomy
Article
Diagnosis, Differential
Postoperative Complications
Abdomen
medicine
Humans
Abdominal hysterectomy
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Abdominal Pain
Surgery
Bowel obstruction
medicine.anatomical_structure
Female
medicine.symptom
Differential diagnosis
business
Intestinal Obstruction
- Language
- ISSN
- 1757-790X
We present a case of adhesion-related small bowel obstruction occurring within only 36 h of a total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. There has been no previously reported case where there has been such a short interval between surgery and adhesion-related small bowel obstruction. This is important to note, as it ensures that adhesion-related small bowel obstruction is on the list of differential diagnoses for patients who present very soon after surgery with symptoms such as abdominal pain and vomiting. It is also important as it allows the pathogenesis of adhesion formation to be reviewed in light of this rapid onset of adhesion formation and its complications.