Perforated stercoral ulcer of the sigmoid colon

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1072-1073

  Hatzaras, Ioannis S ^a   Armen, Scott ^a   Dudrick, Stanley J ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; HARTMANN SOLUTION; LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HARD FECES; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; PERITONITIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCYBALA; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDECTOMY; STERCORAL ULCER; TACHYCARDIA; ULCER PERFORATION; COLON DISEASE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; PATHOLOGY; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; PERITONITIS; SIGMOID DISEASES; ULCER;

EID: 54449098907     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817f58c2     Document Type: Letter

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