Spontaneous gastric perforation in an 11-year-old boy with anorexia nervosa: Rare presentation with right iliac fossa pain

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hashmi, Khawar Sibtain ^a   Ellul, Thomas ^a   Leopard, Daniel Charles ^a   Woodward, Alan ^a  

^a ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILIAC FOSSA PAIN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RARE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH EXAMINATION; STOMACH PERFORATION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL PAIN; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STOMACH RUPTURE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STOMACH RUPTURE;

EID: 84867175398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-006512     Document Type: Article

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