Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury

Post-electric burn ileal perforation is a rare but severe complication leading to high morbidity and mortality if there is delay in diagnosis and management. We are describing a case of electric current injury of left forearm, chest, and abdominal wall with perforation of ileum in an 8-year old boy....

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Autores principales: Singh, Aditya Pratap, Mathur, Vinay, Tanger, Ramesh, Gupta, Arun Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27170922
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author Singh, Aditya Pratap
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description Post-electric burn ileal perforation is a rare but severe complication leading to high morbidity and mortality if there is delay in diagnosis and management. We are describing a case of electric current injury of left forearm, chest, and abdominal wall with perforation of ileum in an 8-year old boy. Patient was successfully managed by primary closure of the ileal perforation.
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spelling pubmed-48520602016-05-11 Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury Singh, Aditya Pratap Mathur, Vinay Tanger, Ramesh Gupta, Arun Kumar APSP J Case Rep Case Report Post-electric burn ileal perforation is a rare but severe complication leading to high morbidity and mortality if there is delay in diagnosis and management. We are describing a case of electric current injury of left forearm, chest, and abdominal wall with perforation of ileum in an 8-year old boy. Patient was successfully managed by primary closure of the ileal perforation. EL-MED-Pub 2016-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4852060/ /pubmed/27170922 Text en Copyright © 2016 AJCR 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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Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury
title Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury
title_full Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury
title_fullStr Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury
title_full_unstemmed Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury
title_short Low Voltage Electric Current Causing Ileal Perforation: A Rare Injury
title_sort low voltage electric current causing ileal perforation: a rare injury
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27170922
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