Internet Archive Scholar

Ultrasonography of Gastric Volvulus. "Peanut Sign"

Yasuyuki MATSUZAKI, Mayumi ASAI, Toshihiro OKURA, Ryuichi TAMURA
2001 Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992)  

Preserved Fulltext

fulltext thumbnail
Web Archive Capture PDF (3.3 MB)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190216024850/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0037/da27ec20e52566bf020d38fa7c832c75f0b9.pdf

A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2019; you can also visit the original URL. The file type is application/pdf.

Wereport a case of chronic gastric volvulus in which ultrasonography (US) was useful. An 81-year-old woman was hospitalized due to vomiting, and upper gastroduodenoscopy revealed that the stomach was spirally twisted and constricted. An upper gastrointestinal barium study demonstrated an organoaxial-mesenteroaxial combined type gastric volvulus. US showed constriction between the dilated upper stomach body and the lower stomach body similar to a "peanut". Thereafter, the patient's vomiting
more » ... ed and follow-up USdemonstrated that the constriction of the stomach was loosened. Therefore, we believe that this characteristic USsign paralleled the symptoms of the patient. (Internal Medicine 40: 23-27, 2001)
doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.40.23 fatcat:x6zyrpcvcbhi7banvozycuvdge
Open Access
Citation

Yasuyuki MATSUZAKI, Mayumi ASAI, Toshihiro OKURA, Ryuichi TAMURA. "Ultrasonography of Gastric Volvulus. "Peanut Sign"." Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992) 40.1 (2001) 23-27