Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report

BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever afflicts people of low socioeconomic status in developing nations. Although ileal perforation is a common complication of typhoid fever in tropical Africa, caecal perforations related to typhoid fever are uncommon. They present atypically in children under of five years old...

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Autores principales: Olakayode, Ogundoyin, Chibuzo, Ijeoma, Ekwuazi, Hyginus, Nwafuluaku, Chukwudi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666788
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v29i5.17
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author Olakayode, Ogundoyin
Chibuzo, Ijeoma
Ekwuazi, Hyginus
Nwafuluaku, Chukwudi
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Chibuzo, Ijeoma
Ekwuazi, Hyginus
Nwafuluaku, Chukwudi
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description BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever afflicts people of low socioeconomic status in developing nations. Although ileal perforation is a common complication of typhoid fever in tropical Africa, caecal perforations related to typhoid fever are uncommon. They present atypically in children under of five years old. Such presentation could include cough and caecal perforation. CLINICAL DESCRIPTION: We report a two-year old girl with intraoperative and histopathological evidence of a perforated typhoid caecitis who had right hemicolectomy. CONCLUSION: Caecal perforations may occur in children as young as two years of age following enteric fever. High index of suspicion is needed for early detection.
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spelling pubmed-68132632019-10-30 Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report Olakayode, Ogundoyin Chibuzo, Ijeoma Ekwuazi, Hyginus Nwafuluaku, Chukwudi Ethiop J Health Sci Case Report BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever afflicts people of low socioeconomic status in developing nations. Although ileal perforation is a common complication of typhoid fever in tropical Africa, caecal perforations related to typhoid fever are uncommon. They present atypically in children under of five years old. Such presentation could include cough and caecal perforation. CLINICAL DESCRIPTION: We report a two-year old girl with intraoperative and histopathological evidence of a perforated typhoid caecitis who had right hemicolectomy. CONCLUSION: Caecal perforations may occur in children as young as two years of age following enteric fever. High index of suspicion is needed for early detection. Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2019-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6813263/ /pubmed/31666788 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v29i5.17 Text en © 2019 Ogundoyin O., et al. 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 author and source are credited.
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Olakayode, Ogundoyin
Chibuzo, Ijeoma
Ekwuazi, Hyginus
Nwafuluaku, Chukwudi
Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report
title Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report
title_full Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report
title_fullStr Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report
title_short Typhoid Caecal Perforation in a Two-Year Old Child: A Case Report
title_sort typhoid caecal perforation in a two-year old child: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666788
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v29i5.17
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