The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager

Stercoral perforation is a rare sequela of poorly controlled constipation that is more commonly seen in older, bedridden patients than in pediatric patients. We present the case of a 13-year-old patient requiring a divided sigmoid colostomy following rectal perforation, one of the few examples in th...

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Autores principales: Lee, Felicia, Cao, Jasmin, Lin, Evan, Kurashima, Maho, Okeke, Raymond I, Saliba, Christian, Miyata, Shin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Pediatric Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10502519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719582
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43554
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author Lee, Felicia
Cao, Jasmin
Lin, Evan
Kurashima, Maho
Okeke, Raymond I
Saliba, Christian
Miyata, Shin
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Cao, Jasmin
Lin, Evan
Kurashima, Maho
Okeke, Raymond I
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description Stercoral perforation is a rare sequela of poorly controlled constipation that is more commonly seen in older, bedridden patients than in pediatric patients. We present the case of a 13-year-old patient requiring a divided sigmoid colostomy following rectal perforation, one of the few examples in the pediatric literature of stercoral perforation from chronic constipation. The current report highlights the importance of appropriate treatment of functional constipation at onset and the life-threatening complications that can occur without appropriate follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-105025192023-09-16 The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager Lee, Felicia Cao, Jasmin Lin, Evan Kurashima, Maho Okeke, Raymond I Saliba, Christian Miyata, Shin Cureus Pediatric Surgery Stercoral perforation is a rare sequela of poorly controlled constipation that is more commonly seen in older, bedridden patients than in pediatric patients. We present the case of a 13-year-old patient requiring a divided sigmoid colostomy following rectal perforation, one of the few examples in the pediatric literature of stercoral perforation from chronic constipation. The current report highlights the importance of appropriate treatment of functional constipation at onset and the life-threatening complications that can occur without appropriate follow-up. Cureus 2023-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10502519/ /pubmed/37719582 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43554 Text en Copyright © 2023, Lee et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Pediatric Surgery
Lee, Felicia
Cao, Jasmin
Lin, Evan
Kurashima, Maho
Okeke, Raymond I
Saliba, Christian
Miyata, Shin
The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager
title The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager
title_full The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager
title_fullStr The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager
title_full_unstemmed The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager
title_short The Extremes of Constipation: A Case of Stercoral Perforation From Fecal Impaction in a Teenager
title_sort extremes of constipation: a case of stercoral perforation from fecal impaction in a teenager
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10502519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719582
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43554
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