Sigmoid volvulus
devolvulación endoscópica
Keywords:
intestinal occlusionAbstract
A case of sigmoid volvulus treated by fiberoptic
colonoscopy is presented. The ·authors analyze the
differents nonoperative treatment procedures utili•
zed at now (ano-rectal intubation, proctosigmoidos·
copy and volvulus reduction by colonoscopy),
showing the advantages of the procedure utilized
in this case. The importance of avoiding an emergen•
cy operation which implies 'high mortality risk is
pointed out. According to the authors resection is
the definitive treatment.
Downloads
Metrics
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
All articles, videos and images published in Revista Cirugía del Uruguay are under the Creative Commons CC licenses, which is a complement to the traditional copyright, in the following terms: first, the authorship of the referred document must always be acknowledged and secondly none of the article or work published in the journal may have commercial purposes of any nature. The authors retain their copyrights and give the magazine the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License license that allows the work to be shared whenever the initial publication is indicated in this journal.