enterolith

(ˈɛntərəʊˌlɪθ)

(Medicine) an intestinal stone

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enterolith - a calculus occurring in the intestines

calculus, concretion - a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi can be very painful"

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Eighty-four patients with small-bowel polyps, 26 with intestinal obstruction caused by enterolith, and 18 with bleeding from Dieulafoy's lesions in the small intestine were treated endoscopically.

Effect of Double-Balloon Enteroscopy on Diagnosis and Treatment of Small-Bowel Diseases

We present a rare case of a large enterolith formed inside a Meckel's diverticulum that was diagnosed in adolescence after having caused intermittent abdominal symptoms and finally small bowel obstruction.

Large Enterolith Complicating a Meckel Diverticulum Causing Obstructive Ileus in an Adolescent Male Patient

* Luminal obstruction due to tumours, enterolith, foreign body, causing stasis or bacterial infection.

Management of Meckel's diverticulum--a retrospective study in a tertiary care Centre

An enterolith is a mass found in the small or large intestine.

A Calcium Enterolith in a Patient with Crohn's Disease and Its In Vitro Dissolubility in Citric Acid

A case of enterolith small bowel obstruction and jejunal diverticulosis.

Complicated jejunal diverticulosis: small bowel volvulus with obstruction

Kim et al., "Lemmel's Syndrome, an unusual cause of abdominal pain and jaundice by impacted intradiverticular enterolith: case report," Journal of Korean Medical Science, vol.

The impact of duodenal diverticuli and the execution of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography

Keywords: Enterolith, Colostomy, Imperforate anus, Urinary obstruction, Intestinal obstruction.

Enterolith causing bladder outlet obstruction in patient with imperforate anus. A rare case presentation

In upto 30% of patients symptoms may develop including chronic abdominal pain, malabsorption, blind loop syndrome, enterolith formation, haemorrhage, diverticulitis, obstruction, abscess formation and rarely diverticular perforation1,2,5,7,8.

PERFORATED JEJUNAL DIVERTICULUM; A RARE CAUSE OF ACUTE PERITONITIS

General case of the day : enterolith in a blind pouch(blind pouch syndrome secondary to side to side enteroanastomosis).

An unusual presentation of Meckel's diverticulum

At the time of surgery, a 4.5 cm enterolith was found and removed from the distal jejunum via longitudinal enterotomy, followed by a cholecystectomy in which gallstones were found but no cholecystoenteric fistula was noted.

Bile Salt Enterolith: An Unusual Etiology Mimicking Gallstone Ileus