CASE REPORTS  VASCULAR SECTION 

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2002 December;43(6):895-7

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language: English

Superior mesenteric thrombosis associated with small bowel stricture. Case report

Huh S. H., Kim D. I., Lee B. B.

Division of Vascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Intes­tinal stric­ture ­from ­superior mes­en­teric ­vein (SMV) throm­bosis is a rel­a­tively infre­quent, ­though impor­tant ­cause of intes­tinal obstruc­tion. The ­symptom of intes­tinal obstruc­tion in a ­patient ­with ­chronic SMV throm­bosis ­should be con­sid­ered as the pos­sibility of ­bowel stric­ture. We ­report 2 ­cases of ­small ­bowel stric­ture ­that is ­related to ­chronic SMV throm­bosis ­which ­were ­treated ­with seg­mental resec­tion of stric­tured ­bowel.