Study design: A case report of superior mesenteric artery syndrome (SMA syndrome) occurring in a paraplegic patient 3 months after injury. Objectives: To report an unusual case and review the ...

A 60-year-old female underwent massive bowel resection for superior mesenteric artery (SMA) thrombosis. The resection extended from 10 cm distal to the cecum and on to the ascending colon with a ...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder with signs and symptoms of severe weight loss, restrictive eating, and fear of weight gain. While not everyone with AN is severely underweight, many ...

Aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms of the superior mesenteric artery are potentially lethal, and should be treated as urgently as possible. Recent advances in multidetector computed tomography and magnetic ...

Echocardiograms and Doppler studies of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) were performed in 41 neonates less than 35 weeks gestational age with a hemodynamically significant PDA (hsPDA). This was a ...

The right colic artery arises either directly from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) or, more often, a common stem from the SMA that it shares with the ileocolic artery. The SMA is one of three ...

THE diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasms is difficult because of the inaccessibility of the organ to the usual means of examination. Conventional methods of diagnostic, radiography are helpful in only a ...