Duodenal perforation in a 12-month old child with severe malaria

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in children remains rare and difficult to diagnose before the onset of complications. We report on a case of a 12-month child with perforated duodenal ulcer, association with malaria. The severity of the febrile presentation and the positive laboratory confirmation of mala...

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Autores principales: Goldman, Nina, Punguyire, Damien, Osei-Kwakye, Kingsley, Baiden, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22826726
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author Goldman, Nina
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description Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in children remains rare and difficult to diagnose before the onset of complications. We report on a case of a 12-month child with perforated duodenal ulcer, association with malaria. The severity of the febrile presentation and the positive laboratory confirmation of malaria delayed the diagnosis of PUD. Surgical intervention was successful and without significant sequelae. An awareness of the possibility, and a lower threshold for considering PUD in children may help prevent complications.
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spelling pubmed-33968552012-07-23 Duodenal perforation in a 12-month old child with severe malaria Goldman, Nina Punguyire, Damien Osei-Kwakye, Kingsley Baiden, Frank Pan Afr Med J Case Report Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in children remains rare and difficult to diagnose before the onset of complications. We report on a case of a 12-month child with perforated duodenal ulcer, association with malaria. The severity of the febrile presentation and the positive laboratory confirmation of malaria delayed the diagnosis of PUD. Surgical intervention was successful and without significant sequelae. An awareness of the possibility, and a lower threshold for considering PUD in children may help prevent complications. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3396855/ /pubmed/22826726 Text en © Nina Goldman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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.
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title Duodenal perforation in a 12-month old child with severe malaria
title_full Duodenal perforation in a 12-month old child with severe malaria
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title_full_unstemmed Duodenal perforation in a 12-month old child with severe malaria
title_short Duodenal perforation in a 12-month old child with severe malaria
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