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A life threatening complication of anti reflux surgery: acute gastric volvulus

Author(s) -

özsoy Mustafa,

Z. Özsoy,

Suleyman Sahin,

Yüksel Arıkan

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

sri lanka journal of surgery/sri lanka journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2279-2201

pISSN - 0379-8240

DOI - 10.4038/sljs.v36i1.8481

Subject(s) - medicine , sri lanka , medical journal , general surgery , medical education , family medicine , sociology , south asia , ethnology

Gastric volvulus is divided into two as primary and secondary according to the aetiology. In primary gastric volvulus, the pathology is the relaxation of the support ligaments of stomach. Secondary gastric volvulus develops due to predisposing factors such as hiatus hernia, traumatic diaphragmatic rupture, diaphragm eventration, intrinsic and extrinsic pathologies of stomach, and abdominal adhesions [1].

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