Non-traumatic intramural haematoma: An unusual cause of duodenal obstruction

✍ Scribed by S. P. Frostick; Mr J. Collin; A. S. Daar; M. Kettlewell; D. J. Nolan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 584 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800710421

✦ Synopsis

Case reports

Case 1 A 71 -year-old man presented with persistent vomiting following an episode of Campylobacter enteritis. Gastroscopy revealed no abnormality. A barium meal demonstrated obstruction of the third part of the duodenum with crowding of normal looking mucosal folds. Laparotomy revealed a circumferential organized duodenal haematoma extending into the jejunal mesentery. A gastrojejunostomy was fashioned and the patient made an uneventful recovery.

Case 2

A 60-year-old man presented with vomiting for 48 h. Two weeks