Fecaloma Causing Colonic Obstruction and Multiple Stercoral Ulcers
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Giant Fecaloma Causing Small Bowel Obstruction: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Fecaloma is a mass of hardened feces being impacted mostly in rectum and sigmoid. The most common sites of the fecaloma is the sigmoid colon and the rectum. There are several causes of fecaloma and have been described in association with Hirschsprung's disease, psychiatric patients, Chagas disease, both inflammatory and neoplastic, and in patients suffering with chronic constipation. Up to now ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1598-9992,2233-6869
DOI: 10.4166/kjg.2016.68.2.119