Bowel obstruction

A 79-year-old woman presents with four days of intermittent cramping abdominal pain, vomiting and increasing abdominal distension. She has no history of abdomin…

Clinical rotations · common

A 67-year-old man with a previous midline laparotomy presents with colicky abdominal pain, vomiting and progressive distension. Initially the pain came in waves…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 78-year-old man from a residential aged care facility, with long-standing constipation, presents with three days of increasing abdominal distension and no pas…

Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a 24-hour history of worsening abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. He has a history of open sigmoi…

Clinical rotations · middle twist