Postvaginal Delivery Caecal Volvulus and Perforation

Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon complication of pregnancy and pueperium. It has different etiologies and voluvlus is one of the common causes. High index of suspicion is needed to diagnose it as initial presentation is nonspecific and that is critical to avoid adverse outcomes. We presented he...

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Autor principal: Abdullah Agha, M. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567529
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/971213
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description Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon complication of pregnancy and pueperium. It has different etiologies and voluvlus is one of the common causes. High index of suspicion is needed to diagnose it as initial presentation is nonspecific and that is critical to avoid adverse outcomes. We presented here one of these cases that followed vaginal delivery and ended with caecal perforation and hemicolectomy.
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spelling pubmed-33355342012-05-07 Postvaginal Delivery Caecal Volvulus and Perforation Abdullah Agha, M. M. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon complication of pregnancy and pueperium. It has different etiologies and voluvlus is one of the common causes. High index of suspicion is needed to diagnose it as initial presentation is nonspecific and that is critical to avoid adverse outcomes. We presented here one of these cases that followed vaginal delivery and ended with caecal perforation and hemicolectomy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3335534/ /pubmed/22567529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/971213 Text en Copyright © 2012 M. M. Abdullah Agha. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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