Caecal rupture due to a dislocated vaginal pessary with fatal outcome in a patient with rectal diverticulosis

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1021-1022

  Luyer, Misha D P ^a   Reijn, Vivianne ^a   Plasschaert, Herbert ^a   De Feiter, Peter W ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANOREXIA; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CECUM DISEASE; CECUM RUPTURE; COLON DILATATION; DEATH; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; NAUSEA; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL DIVERTICULOSIS; RESUSCITATION; VAGINA PESSARY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECUM; DIVERTICULUM; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; PESSARIES; RECTAL DISEASES; RUPTURE;

EID: 34447119596     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520601137298     Document Type: Letter

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