Malrotation

Colon nontumor
Congenital anomalies
Malrotation

Topic Completed: 1 May 2013

Revised: 7 January 2019, last major update May 2013

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Definition / general | Case reports

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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)