High Chronic Ileus and Subrenal Aortic Aneurysm - An Interesting Case Review

Abstract

Ileus caused by small intestinal obturation due to an enterolith, as a complication of jejunal diverticulosis, is rare, however, a number of case reviews describing the conditions can be found in literature. The presented case review documents difficulties with entherolith ileus diagnostics and its management together with a growing abdominal aneurysm, as a single step procedure.

Keywords

• small intestinal diverticulosis
• enterolith
• aneurysma