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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Volvulus is twisting of a non solid organ around its mesentric axis. Gallbladder volvullus is twisting or rotation of gall bladder along the axis of cystic duct and vascular pedicle(cystic artery).<ref name="pmid17860545">{{cite journal| author=Wendel AV| title=VI. A Case of Floating Gall-Bladder and Kidney complicated by Cholelithiasis, with Perforation of the Gall-Bladder. | journal=Ann Surg | year= 1898 | volume= 27 | issue= 2 | pages= 199-202 | pmid=17860545 | doi= | pmc=PMC1426674 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17860545 }} </ref> | Volvulus is twisting of a non solid organ around its mesentric axis. Gallbladder volvullus is twisting or rotation of gall bladder along the axis of cystic duct and vascular pedicle(cystic artery).<ref name="pmid17860545">{{cite journal| author=Wendel AV| title=VI. A Case of Floating Gall-Bladder and Kidney complicated by Cholelithiasis, with Perforation of the Gall-Bladder. | journal=Ann Surg | year= 1898 | volume= 27 | issue= 2 | pages= 199-202 | pmid=17860545 | doi= | pmc=PMC1426674 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17860545 }} </ref> | ||
==Historical Perspective== | |||
It was first described by Wendal in 1898. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Gastroenterology]] | [[Category:Gastroenterology]] | ||
[[Category:Disease]] | [[Category:Disease]] | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Volvulus is twisting of a non solid organ around its mesentric axis. Gallbladder volvullus is twisting or rotation of gall bladder along the axis of cystic duct and vascular pedicle(cystic artery).[1]
Historical Perspective
It was first described by Wendal in 1898.