Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome

Rare in the general public, dural ectasia is a common finding in patients with Marfan syndrome. Complications are not frequent but include constipation, urinary retention, and meningitis. Presented here is a case of bacterial meningitis secondary to fistulous communication between a sacral meningoce...

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Autores principales: Samet, Jonathan D., Johnson, Pamela T., Horton, Karen M., Fishman, Elliot K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27326266
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v7i1.442
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description Rare in the general public, dural ectasia is a common finding in patients with Marfan syndrome. Complications are not frequent but include constipation, urinary retention, and meningitis. Presented here is a case of bacterial meningitis secondary to fistulous communication between a sacral meningocele and sigmoid colon in the setting of diverticulitis.
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spelling pubmed-48998662016-06-20 Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome Samet, Jonathan D. Johnson, Pamela T. Horton, Karen M. Fishman, Elliot K. Radiol Case Rep Article Rare in the general public, dural ectasia is a common finding in patients with Marfan syndrome. Complications are not frequent but include constipation, urinary retention, and meningitis. Presented here is a case of bacterial meningitis secondary to fistulous communication between a sacral meningocele and sigmoid colon in the setting of diverticulitis. Elsevier 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4899866/ /pubmed/27326266 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v7i1.442 Text en © 2012 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome
title_full Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome
title_fullStr Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome
title_short Diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with Marfan syndrome
title_sort diverticulitis complicated by fistulous communication of sigmoid colon with anterior sacral meningocele in a patient with marfan syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899866/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v7i1.442
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