Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis

Chronic constipation can lead to fecal impaction. It can also rarely lead to catastrophic complications like perforation, colonic obstruction, and fecal peritonitis. We report a rare case of stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis and pneumoperitoneum, which was diagnosed on pre...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Monika, Agrawal, Anjali
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
Materias:
Abdominal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607025
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63051
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description Chronic constipation can lead to fecal impaction. It can also rarely lead to catastrophic complications like perforation, colonic obstruction, and fecal peritonitis. We report a rare case of stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis and pneumoperitoneum, which was diagnosed on preoperative CT scan.
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spelling pubmed-28909202010-07-06 Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis Sharma, Monika Agrawal, Anjali Indian J Radiol Imaging Abdominal Chronic constipation can lead to fecal impaction. It can also rarely lead to catastrophic complications like perforation, colonic obstruction, and fecal peritonitis. We report a rare case of stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis and pneumoperitoneum, which was diagnosed on preoperative CT scan. Medknow Publications 2010-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2890920/ /pubmed/20607025 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63051 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Abdominal
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Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
title Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
title_full Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
title_fullStr Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
title_full_unstemmed Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
title_short Case report: Stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
title_sort case report: stercoral sigmoid colonic perforation with fecal peritonitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607025
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63051
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