Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Open drains are frequently placed in the abdominal cavity to prevent the collection of fluid or blood following major surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of perforation of the large bowel caused by the drain tube placed in a 74-year-old patient who had undergone radical cyst...

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Autores principales: Chatzidarellis, Eleftherios P, Skolarikos, Andreas, Mazaris, Evangelos, Mitsogiannis, Iraklis, Alivizatos, Gerasimos
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19032750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-350
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author Chatzidarellis, Eleftherios P
Skolarikos, Andreas
Mazaris, Evangelos
Mitsogiannis, Iraklis
Alivizatos, Gerasimos
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description INTRODUCTION: Open drains are frequently placed in the abdominal cavity to prevent the collection of fluid or blood following major surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of perforation of the large bowel caused by the drain tube placed in a 74-year-old patient who had undergone radical cystectomy for invasive bladder cancer.
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spelling pubmed-26057652008-12-20 Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report Chatzidarellis, Eleftherios P Skolarikos, Andreas Mazaris, Evangelos Mitsogiannis, Iraklis Alivizatos, Gerasimos Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Open drains are frequently placed in the abdominal cavity to prevent the collection of fluid or blood following major surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of perforation of the large bowel caused by the drain tube placed in a 74-year-old patient who had undergone radical cystectomy for invasive bladder cancer. BioMed Central 2008-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2605765/ /pubmed/19032750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-350 Text en Copyright © 2008 Chatzidarellis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chatzidarellis, Eleftherios P
Skolarikos, Andreas
Mazaris, Evangelos
Mitsogiannis, Iraklis
Alivizatos, Gerasimos
Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
title Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
title_full Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
title_fullStr Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
title_short Postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
title_sort postradical cystectomy bowel perforation caused by a drainage tube: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19032750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-350
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