STRANGULATION OF THE COLON COMPLICATING ACUTE-PANCREATITIS

We report a patient with alcohol-induced necrotizing pancreatitis who developed a severe ileus followed by incarceration of a portion of the transverse colon within a ventral hernia, Laparotomy 9 days after the onset of symptoms revealed infarction of the transverse colon and inf ection of the pancreas, This is the first report of a case of acute pa ncreatitis that led to a strangulated ventral hernia of the colon, We believe that the enteric organisms that infected the pancreas originat ed in the incarcerated transverse colon.