Rectal perforation from endometriosis in pregnancy: Case report and literature review

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 648-651

  Pisanu, Adolfo ^a   Deplano, Daniela ^a   Angioni, Stefano ^a   Ambu, Rossano ^a   Uccheddu, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; Colonic perforation; Endometriosis; Peritonitis; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECIDUALIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HARTMANN OPERATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCISION; INFANT; INTESTINE SURGERY; MALE; PELVIS ABSCESS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RECTUM PERFORATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 76549089349     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i5.648     Document Type: Article

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