Colon nontumor
Congenital anomalies
Malrotation
Revised: 7 January 2019, last major update May 2013
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PubMed Search: colon malrotation
Congenital anomalies
Malrotation
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Topic Completed: 1 May 2013
Revised: 7 January 2019, last major update May 2013
Copyright: (c) 2003-2016, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PubMed Search: colon malrotation
Cite this page: Gulwani H. Malrotation. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/colonmalrotation.html. Accessed May 30th, 2020.
Definition / general
- Uncommon anomaly most often seen in infants, occasionally in adults, due to improper embryologic rotation of gut
- Also defined as intestinal malrotation as intestinal nonrotation or incomplete rotation around the superior mesenteric artery (eMedicine)
- Symptoms may first occur in women during pregnancy (Obstet Gynecol 1993;81:817)
Case reports
- 2 day old male infant with imperforate anus, malrotation, and Hirschsprung's disease with double zonal aganglionosis (J Pediatr Surg 2008;43:222)
- 75 year old man with giant inguinal hernia with intestinal malrotation (Int J Surg Case Rep 2012;3:563)
