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case_images: Erect and supine plain abdominal X-rays.
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case_images: Abdominal X-ray (Fig. 1) showed a typically dilated omega shape colon.
case_images: Appearance at Laparotomy.
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case_images: Under general anesthesia with muscle relaxation a generous midline incision revealed an intact, grossly dilated and apparently gangrenous large bowel that turned out to be the transverse colon (Fig. 2).
case_images: Gangrenous transverse colonic segment delivered.
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case_images: The twisted gangrenous colon was carefully delivered (Fig. 3).
case_images: Resected Transverse Colon.
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case_images: The resected colonic segment was 109 cm in length and 22 cm in its maximum diameter (Fig. 4).