What is it about?
there are two types of spontaneous perforation of colon in adults ( no primary pathology in colon) one is caused by stercolith ie faecal impaction and the other is idiopathic .this paper is about case report of spontaneous perforation of colon in adults as compared to children
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Why is it important?
stercolit perforation account for 3.2% of colonic perforations in adults but there are very scanty reports of spotaneous prforation with outout apparent cause in adult s
Perspectives
we need to be aware of this possibility when seeing colonic perfotation in adult without apparent cause
Dr imad Afram Jaboury
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This page is a summary of: Idiopathic colonic perforation in adults, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, March 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ans.14264.
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