Table 1.
Categorization of the small bowel volvulus.
Table 2.
Clinical manifestations and blood routine tests of the 31 patients with small bowel volvulus.
Table 3.
Statistical analysis of clinical characteristics between small bowel volvulus with and without the necrotic intestine.
Table 4.
Surgical procedures performed in the 31 patients.
Fig 1.
Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT demonstrated the dilation of small bowels and whirl-like pattern of distended small bowels encircling the mesenteric artery or its branches (red arrows).
Fig 2.
Three-dimensional abdominal CT showed the whirl sign of superior mesenteric vessels (A, red arrow).
The longitudinal tapering of superior mesenteric vein (B) and artery (C) were found in the coronal scan.