ACUTE TOTAL VOLVULUS OF THE STOMACH

Abstract

Volvulus of the stomach is rare. The first case was reported by Berti¹in 1866. Berti's case was a total volvulus found at necropsy. The first reported case in which operation was performed was that of Berg,²in 1895. Berg reported two cases, one of a total, the other a partial, volvulus. Since then, several total and partial cases have been reported, the partial being the more common. Kocher,³who in 1914 reported a case of total idiopathic volvulus of the stomach in a woman, aged 53, found twenty-eight cases in the literature. Cases of total volvulus have since been reported by Niosi⁴and Siegel,⁵the latter case being in a child, aged 2 years. REPORT OF CASE I have recently observed and operated in the case of volvulus here reported: History. —Mrs. A. P., a widow, aged 77, had pneumonia during 1895 and again