Author(s)

Mandana Sigaroudinia, David Bowden, Deb Maitra, Graham Cawdell

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Small bowel evisceration through the vagina is a rare condition, which tends to affect post-menopausal women who have undergone vaginal hysterectomy. It is a surgical emergency with a favourable outcome if diagnosed and treated in a timely fashion. Delay in diagnosis can precipitate infarction of small bowel loops with associated morbidity and mortality. Treatment involves laparotomy, reduction of the incarcerated loops (plus/minus small bowel resection) and repair of the vaginal rupture. The purpose of this paper is to report a case of small bowel evisceration through the vagina, to review the literature pertaining to this topic and to raise awareness of this condition in the general surgical community.

Small Bowel Evisceration, Vaginal Rupture, Hysterectomy

M. Sigaroudinia, D. Bowden, D. Maitra and G. Cawdell, "Small Bowel Evisceration Following Vaginal Hysterectomy is a General Surgical Emergency–A Case Report and Review of the Literature," Surgical Science, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2011, pp. 77-79. doi: 10.4236/ss.2011.22017.