Case Report
An Unusual Mass at the Colonic Splenic Flexure
Salih Samo* and Srinadh Komanduri
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 333 East Ontario Street, Unit 4205, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
- Corresponding Author:
- Salih Samo, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Address: 333 East Ontario Street
Unit 4205, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Tel: 18479979233
E-mail: salihsamo@hotmail.com
Received Date: March 16, 2016; Accepted Date: March 26, 2016; Published Date: March 31, 2016
Citation: Samo S, Komanduri S (2016) An Unusual Mass at the Colonic Splenic Flexure. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 6:406. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000406
Copyright: © 2016 Sam S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Large bowel obstruction is less common that small bowel obstruction and constitutes about 25% of intestinal obstruction. Chronic functional bowel obstruction can lead to fecal impaction and subsequent fecaloma formation.
