Segmental Dilatation of Intestine Presenting as Partial Intestinal Obstruction in a Child

Segmental dilatation of the intestine in pediatric age group is a rare entity. Patients usually present with partial intestinal obstruction which may delay surgical decision. Our case was an 18-month-old girl, who presented with partial intestinal obstruction, provisionally diagnosed as a case of Hi...

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Autores principales: Khemakhem, Rachid, Riazulhaq, Muhammad, Elhassan, Elbager Othman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25057472
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author Khemakhem, Rachid
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description Segmental dilatation of the intestine in pediatric age group is a rare entity. Patients usually present with partial intestinal obstruction which may delay surgical decision. Our case was an 18-month-old girl, who presented with partial intestinal obstruction, provisionally diagnosed as a case of Hirschsprung’s disease. Diagnostic evaluation with contrast study gave a clue of small intestinal obstruction with a dilated segment.
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spelling pubmed-40908172014-07-23 Segmental Dilatation of Intestine Presenting as Partial Intestinal Obstruction in a Child Khemakhem, Rachid Riazulhaq, Muhammad Elhassan, Elbager Othman APSP J Case Rep Case Report Segmental dilatation of the intestine in pediatric age group is a rare entity. Patients usually present with partial intestinal obstruction which may delay surgical decision. Our case was an 18-month-old girl, who presented with partial intestinal obstruction, provisionally diagnosed as a case of Hirschsprung’s disease. Diagnostic evaluation with contrast study gave a clue of small intestinal obstruction with a dilated segment. EL-MED-Pub 2014-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4090817/ /pubmed/25057472 Text en Copyright © 2014 Khemakhem et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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title_short Segmental Dilatation of Intestine Presenting as Partial Intestinal Obstruction in a Child
title_sort segmental dilatation of intestine presenting as partial intestinal obstruction in a child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25057472
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