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Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas

versión impresa ISSN 1130-0108

Rev. esp. enferm. dig. vol.103 no.3 Madrid mar. 2011

 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

 

Malposition of the transverse colon

Malposición del colon transverso

 

 


Key words: Malposition. Transverse colon. Nausea.

Palabras clave: Malposición. Colon transverso. Náuseas.


 

 

Dear Editor,

A 48-year-old man consulted for a second opinion with the diagnoses of pancreatic cancer. The patient suffered epigastric and left hypochondrium pain, constipation, nausea, hematemesis and constitutional syndrome with loss of 5 kg in the last two months.

An abdominal ultrasound (US) revealed a mass in the left hepatic lobe. Afterwards, an abdominal computed tomography (CT), chest radiography and complete analytical of tumoral markers were performed.

The thoraco-abdominal CT showed a mass of 17 cm in the tail of pancreas with infiltration of stomach, spleen and splenic vessels (Fig. 1). One of the liver lesions infiltrated intrahepatic vena cava with cranial extension up to the right atrium. Besides a horseshoe kidney and a malposition of the transverse colon were found. Transverse colon runned below the third portion of duodenum and that was caused the rotation of the root of the mesocolon with a moderate dilatation of bowel loops and the stomach secondary to the duodenal compression by the transverse colon.

Bone metastases and high CA19.9 serum levels were shown. A liver biopsy confirmed the diagnoses of pancreatic small cell acinar carcinoma. The patient underwent a palliative distal pancreatectomy, esplenectomy and amplified left nephrectomy.

 

Jorge Arredondo-Chaves1, Amaia García-Lallana-Valbuena2, Juan José Noguera-Tajadura2 and Fernando Pardo-Sánchez1
Departments of 1General Surgery, and 2Radiodiagnosis. Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona, Navarra. Spain

 

References

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