A case of strangulated intestinal obstruction in which disease progression was recognized on ultrasonography: importance of “string-like structure”

Two months earlier, he had been managed conservatively at another hospital for similar symptoms, which had been attributed to postoperative adhesive intestinal obstruction. Surgical findings: f a band of adhesion (yellow triangles) and the necrotic jejunum (asterisk) are shown Mechanical intestinal obstruction can be simple or complex/strangulated, differing depending on the presence of ischemia. Declarations Conflict of interest Akemi Ono, Kazuhiro Mori, Shoko Fukura, Shuji Kondo, Noriko Yokota, and Hiroki Ishibashi declare that they have no conflicts of interest.