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Intermittent Obstruction Resulting from Multiple Intestinal Webs
Kristel Lobo Prabhu,1 Robert Enns,2,3 and Carl J Brown
1,31Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Canada
2Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
3St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Abstract
Intestinal webs are a rare cause of bowel obstruction. A case of a 32-year-old man with multiple intestinal webs causing intermittent, partial bowel obstruction is described. The webs were initially detected with capsule endoscopy. The patient was treated with intraoperative endoscopy and balloon dilation. At early follow-up, no recurrence of his symptoms was evident.
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