Intestinal stones: A rare cause of bowel obstruction

Enterolithiasis or intestinal stones are uncommonly reported. Enterostasis is the cause of stone formation mainly secondary to tuberculous strictures. Although it is unusual, enteroliths can cause intestinal obstruction. We report a case of a mechanical partial intestinal obstruction in a patient wi...

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Autores principales: de León Castorena, Emilio, de León Castorena, Miriam Daniela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31205711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19849837
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description Enterolithiasis or intestinal stones are uncommonly reported. Enterostasis is the cause of stone formation mainly secondary to tuberculous strictures. Although it is unusual, enteroliths can cause intestinal obstruction. We report a case of a mechanical partial intestinal obstruction in a patient with ulcerative colitis previously treated with total colectomy, with the rare diagnosis of multiple primary enterolithiasis.
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spelling pubmed-65370812019-06-14 Intestinal stones: A rare cause of bowel obstruction de León Castorena, Emilio de León Castorena, Miriam Daniela SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Enterolithiasis or intestinal stones are uncommonly reported. Enterostasis is the cause of stone formation mainly secondary to tuberculous strictures. Although it is unusual, enteroliths can cause intestinal obstruction. We report a case of a mechanical partial intestinal obstruction in a patient with ulcerative colitis previously treated with total colectomy, with the rare diagnosis of multiple primary enterolithiasis. SAGE Publications 2019-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6537081/ /pubmed/31205711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19849837 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title Intestinal stones: A rare cause of bowel obstruction
title_full Intestinal stones: A rare cause of bowel obstruction
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title_short Intestinal stones: A rare cause of bowel obstruction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537081/
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