Small Bowel Hamartoma: A Huge Diverticulum of Small Bowel

A-20-year old male, with no significant medical history, presented with clinical features mimicking a perforated acute appendicitis. Because of features of peritonitis, a laparotomy was performed which showed a segment of small bowel with multiple large diverticula and mesenteric cysts. A segmental...

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Autores principales: Ebdewi, Hamdi, Eltweri, Amar M., Salama, Yahya, Gorgees, Neshtman, Naidu, Leena, Bowrey, David J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/970457
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author Ebdewi, Hamdi
Eltweri, Amar M.
Salama, Yahya
Gorgees, Neshtman
Naidu, Leena
Bowrey, David J.
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description A-20-year old male, with no significant medical history, presented with clinical features mimicking a perforated acute appendicitis. Because of features of peritonitis, a laparotomy was performed which showed a segment of small bowel with multiple large diverticula and mesenteric cysts. A segmental small bowel resection was performed. The patient made an uneventful recovery from surgery. Histology revealed features of a small bowel hamartoma.
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spelling pubmed-38782782014-01-19 Small Bowel Hamartoma: A Huge Diverticulum of Small Bowel Ebdewi, Hamdi Eltweri, Amar M. Salama, Yahya Gorgees, Neshtman Naidu, Leena Bowrey, David J. Case Rep Med Case Report A-20-year old male, with no significant medical history, presented with clinical features mimicking a perforated acute appendicitis. Because of features of peritonitis, a laparotomy was performed which showed a segment of small bowel with multiple large diverticula and mesenteric cysts. A segmental small bowel resection was performed. The patient made an uneventful recovery from surgery. Histology revealed features of a small bowel hamartoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3878278/ /pubmed/24454405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/970457 Text en Copyright © 2013 Hamdi Ebdewi et al. 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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Small Bowel Hamartoma: A Huge Diverticulum of Small Bowel
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