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Table 2 Reported cases of twisted enteric duplication

From: An unusual presentation of intestinal duplication mimicking torsion of Meckel’s diverticulum: a rare report of a pediatric case

Case

Author

Year

Age (years)

Sex

Symptom

Imaging examination findings

Size

(cm)

Operative findings

Surgical procedure

1

Oğuzkurt et al

[7]

2004

2

Male

Abdominal pain

Distension

Bilious vomiting

A tubular cystic structure

10 × 3 × 3

A colonic duplication associated with duplicated appendix

Simple appendectomy

2

Pant et al. [8]

2012

1

Male

Abdominal pain

Distension

Bilious vomiting

Small bowel volvulus with gangrene

25 × 9

A completely isolated duplication cyst in the ileal mesentery

Excision of the enteric duplication cyst along with the adjacent ileum

3

Xiao-Ming et al. [9]

2018

20

Male

Abdominal pain

Distension

Vomiting

Multiple evidently dilated cystic small-bowel loops

70 × 8

A completely isolated duplication cyst in the ileal mesentery

Excision of the enteric duplication cyst

4

Huang et al

[10]

2018

53

Male

Abdominal pain

Distension

A cystic intestinal dilation

Unknown

An intestinal duplication

Excision of the intestinal duplication cyst along with the adjacent ileum

5

Ou case

2021

3

Male

Abdominal pain

Vomiting

A tubular cystic structure

30

A tubular duplication with some diverticulum structures

Excision of the intestinal duplication cyst along with the adjacent ileum

  1. A search on PubMed for the period 1950–2021 using "enteric duplication", "volvulus", and "torsion" as search words revealed four cases of volvulus of the enteric duplication itself