MESENTERIUM COMMUNAE AND CONGENITAL ANOMALIES OF INTESTINAL ROTATION IN ADULTS: REPORT OF FOUR CASES

Abstract

Congenital anomalies of the intestinal rotation show a great variation in types on roentgenological examination. Each tyyes of them have an embryological back ground.
For cases of adults, ranging from 25 to 43 years old, are presented.
Clinical and roentgenological examinations were performed in each of them, and 2 cases of nonrotation ond 2 cases of malrotation were cemonstrated.
Characteristic clinical sign is“un-usualness”of abdominal pain with severe constipation, diarrhoea and several bowel movements.