Small Bowel Perforation with Minor Trauma: A Rare Complication of an Ovarian Cystic Teratoma

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 990-992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhny Abbara ◽  
B. Jason Bowles ◽  
Shelly Yamashita ◽  
Junji Machi
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. e231662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosuke Kato ◽  
Michelle Cooper

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection of the gastrointestinal tract is common in immunosuppressed patients; however, small bowel perforation from tissue-invasive CMV disease after many years of immunosuppressive therapy is a rare complication requiring timely medical and surgical intervention. We report a case of a postrenal transplant patient who presented to the emergency department with severe lower abdominal pain with CT of the abdomen/pelvis revealing a small bowel perforation. He underwent an emergent laparoscopic right hemicolectomy, and his histopathology of the terminal ileum was positive for CMV disease. He was successfully treated with intravenous ganciclovir postoperatively. We discuss the pathophysiology, histopathological features and treatment of CMV infection.


2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Abdel Goad

Testicular neoplasms metastasizing to the retroperitoneum rarely involve the upper gastrointestinal tract. We describe an unusual case of contained small bowel perforation as a complication of chemotherapy treatment of metastatic non seminomatous germ cell cancer in a 32-year-old man.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 571-573
Author(s):  
Ünal Bakal ◽  
Ahmet Kürşad Poyraz ◽  
Tugay Tartar ◽  
İbrahim Akdeniz ◽  
Mehmet Beşir Sürme ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Robert H. Krieger ◽  
Katherine M. Wojcicki ◽  
Andrew C. Berry ◽  
Warren L. Reuther ◽  
Kendrick D. McArthur

Chronic low back pain is one of the leading chief complaints affecting adults in the United States. As a result, this increases the percentage of patients that will eventually undergo surgical intervention to alleviate debilitating, chronic symptoms. A 37-year-old woman presented ten hours postoperatively after a lumbar laminectomy with an acute abdomen due to the extraordinarily rare complication of small bowel injury secondary to deep surgical penetration.


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