A CASE OF VOLVULUS OF THE TRANSVERSE COLON WHICH BAS TREATED SURGICALLY AFTER SUCCESSFUL COLONOSCOPIC REDUCTION

Abstract

A 44-year-old woman had appetite loss, a abdominal fullness for four years. She wasadmitted to our hospital far abdominal pain, vomiting, and abdominal fullness in April 7, 1996.The double contrast examination showed bird's beak sign in the transverse colon andno abnormality of sigmoid colon. VLre successfully performed reduction of volvulus of thetransverse colon by means of colonoscopy. The partial resection of the transverse coonwas perfarmed palliativelly after colonic preparation. There have been only 4 cases forwhich reduction of volvulus of the transverse colon by means of colonoscopy have beenattempted in Japan, but no successful colonoscopy have been reported in Japanese litera-ture.