Strangulation of the Colon Complicating Acute Pancreatitis |
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| Authors: | Scott Tenner M.D. M.P.H. Stuart G. Silverman M.D. David Brooks M.D. Peter A. Banks M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Center Far Pancreatic Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Abstract: | We report a patient with alcohol-induced necrotizing pancreatitis who developed a severe ileus followed by incarceration of a portion of the transverse colon within a ventral hernia. Laparotomy 9 days after the onset of symptoms revealed infarction of the transverse colon and infection of the pancreas. This is the first report of a case of acute pancreatitis that led to a strangulated ventral hernia of the colon. We believe that the enteric organisms that infected the pancreas originated in the incarcerated transverse colon. |
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