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Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation
Brucellosis is a multisystem zoonotic infection. Patients usually presents with fever and nonspecific systemic symptoms but may rarely present with clinical presentation of an acute abdomen. In this case report, we present a 32-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with symptoms of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226676 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7075 |
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author | Noureen, Iffat Hamza, Muhammad Sabir Khan, Huma Khan, Saleha Hanif, Muhammad |
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description | Brucellosis is a multisystem zoonotic infection. Patients usually presents with fever and nonspecific systemic symptoms but may rarely present with clinical presentation of an acute abdomen. In this case report, we present a 32-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with symptoms of acute abdomen. Exploration revealed ileal perforation secondary to brucellosis, for which loop ileostomy was fashioned. |
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spelling | pubmed-70939392020-03-28 Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation Noureen, Iffat Hamza, Muhammad Sabir Khan, Huma Khan, Saleha Hanif, Muhammad Cureus Pathology Brucellosis is a multisystem zoonotic infection. Patients usually presents with fever and nonspecific systemic symptoms but may rarely present with clinical presentation of an acute abdomen. In this case report, we present a 32-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with symptoms of acute abdomen. Exploration revealed ileal perforation secondary to brucellosis, for which loop ileostomy was fashioned. Cureus 2020-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7093939/ /pubmed/32226676 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7075 Text en Copyright © 2020, Noureen 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 author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Pathology Noureen, Iffat Hamza, Muhammad Sabir Khan, Huma Khan, Saleha Hanif, Muhammad Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation |
title | Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation |
title_full | Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation |
title_fullStr | Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation |
title_full_unstemmed | Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation |
title_short | Brucellosis As a Cause of Intestinal Perforation |
title_sort | brucellosis as a cause of intestinal perforation |
topic | Pathology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226676 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7075 |
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