Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Fecaloma is a mass of feces accumulated that is much harder in consistency than a fecal impactation. The aim of this report is to give a brief review of this entity and discuss the treatment options for these cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 12-year-old boy who develope...

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Autores principales: Garisto, Juan D, Campillo, Luis, Edwards, Errol, Harbour, Mireya, Ermocilla, Rufino
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19196473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-127
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author Garisto, Juan D
Campillo, Luis
Edwards, Errol
Harbour, Mireya
Ermocilla, Rufino
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Edwards, Errol
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description BACKGROUND: Fecaloma is a mass of feces accumulated that is much harder in consistency than a fecal impactation. The aim of this report is to give a brief review of this entity and discuss the treatment options for these cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 12-year-old boy who developed a fecaloma associated with chronic constipation. This is a rare case on a child which was treated by a sigmoid colectomy after failure of conservative measures of evacuation. CONCLUSION: Fecaloma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with history of chronic constipation and abdominal mass.
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spelling pubmed-26427922009-02-14 Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report Garisto, Juan D Campillo, Luis Edwards, Errol Harbour, Mireya Ermocilla, Rufino Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Fecaloma is a mass of feces accumulated that is much harder in consistency than a fecal impactation. The aim of this report is to give a brief review of this entity and discuss the treatment options for these cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 12-year-old boy who developed a fecaloma associated with chronic constipation. This is a rare case on a child which was treated by a sigmoid colectomy after failure of conservative measures of evacuation. CONCLUSION: Fecaloma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with history of chronic constipation and abdominal mass. BioMed Central 2009-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2642792/ /pubmed/19196473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-127 Text en Copyright ©2009 Garisto 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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Edwards, Errol
Harbour, Mireya
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Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report
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title_full_unstemmed Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report
title_short Giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report
title_sort giant fecaloma in a 12-year-old-boy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19196473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-127
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