CASE SERIES AND BRIEF REVIEW |
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Year : 2013 | Volume
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Enterolithiasis: An unusual cause of small intestinal obstruction
Basant M Singhal, Sunil Kaval, Pradeep Kumar, Chandra P Singh
Department of Surgery, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Garh Road, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Basant M Singhal Department of Surgery, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Garh Road, Meerut - 250 004, Uttar Pradesh India
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DOI: 10.4103/2278-9596.122936
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Small bowel obstruction is a common condition, encountered in the emergency room of the surgery department. Uncommon causes include gallstone ileus, worm infestation, internal hernias, mesentric ischemia, trichobezoars or phytobezoars, Crohn's disease, postoperative strictures, and diverticulosis. Even more uncommon is primary enterolithiasis. Enterolith, the enterogenous foreign bodies, are rare clinical and radiological entities. True enteroliths are formed due to precipitation and deposition of substances from alimentary chime. Primary enterolithiasis is a rare entity, occurring in association with pathological conditions that lead to hypomotility and stasis, like Crohn's disease, small intestine diverticulae, traumatic or postoperative strictures of ileum, ulcerative colitis and blind loops. Primary enterolithiasis may be asymptomatic or may present with sub-acute or acute intestinal obstruction, but specific radiological diagnosis of primary enterolithiasis is uncommon. Definitive treatment of enterolithiasis with small intestinal obstruction is essentially surgical. The options at laparotomy are manual lysis of the calculus without enterotomy or removal by enterotomy. Bowel resection is indicated in cases with definitive bowel pathology. We are presenting five cases of enterolithiasis, which we encountered in the Surgery Department of L.L.R.M. Medical College, Meerut from January 2006 to December 2012. Clinical presentation, diagnosis, investigations and treatment have been discussed along with a review of literature. |
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