Intestinal Venous Congestion
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- Commonest cause of intestinal hypoxia
- Usually due to strangulating lesions including intestinal displacements, intussusception etc.
Pathology
Gross
- Intense oedema
- Congestion
- Haemorrhage
- Eventually dark red/black discolouration of intestine.
Histological
- Transmural oedema, haemorrhage and necrosis.