X-ray sign: Coffee bean sign. or Bent Inner Tube Sign 🔻Diagnosis… — Internal Medicine — TG.ME

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🔻X-ray sign: Coffee bean sign. or Bent Inner Tube Sign 🔻Diagnosis: Sigmoid volvulus.(Intestinal obstruction) 🔻Initial treatment: Endoscopic decompression. (flexible sigmoidoscopy ± rectal tube) if there is no evidence of bowel ischemia, perforation, or peritonitis. 🔻Definitive treatment: Elective sigmoid colectomy after successful decompression (to prevent recurrence), or emergency surgery if endoscopic decompression fails or if bowel ischemia, gangrene, perforation, or peritonitis is present. @SCFB21_Surgery

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