DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2023.v11i02.010

Pages: 135-139

It is an anomaly of rotation of the digestive tract, It is characterized by the persistence of an embryonic anatomical arrangement secondary to an anomaly of rotation of the primitive umbilical loop, thus constituting a meso common to the entire intestinal loop and a root extremely short mesentery. This insufficiency of rotation is most often associated with a lack of attachment. Acute volvulus requires emergency surgery and CT is the key diagnostic test. We report the case of a 38-year-old patient who is followed for a metastatic thymus tumor under chemotherapy, appendectomy by a Mcburney, who presents to the emergency room for an acute occlusive syndrome, the CT scan was inconclusive on the etiology of occlusion. The diagnosis of cecal volvulus on complete common mesentery was made intraoperatively. The patient was operated having benefited from a resection of the mobile segment of the colon and stoma, with a good postoperative evolution.