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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Autores principales: Noureen, Iffat, Hamza, Muhammad, Sabir Khan, Huma, Khan, Saleha, Hanif, Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pathology
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
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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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226676
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