Small bowel perforation after radiotherapy for cervical carcinoma.
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Radiotherapy is the treatment of choice for carcinoma of the uterine cervix. We report on a 62-year-old Chinese woman with cervical carcinoma, in whom a small bowel perforation developed 5 months after radiotherapy. Ten centimetres of small bowel, including the perforation site, were resected. No bowel adhesion was detected during the operation. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged home 7 days after surgery. Histological examination confirmed post-irradiation injury. The presenting complaints of patients with bowel perforation following radiotherapy vary, and signs of peritonitis may be absent. Emergency physicians must be alert for these complications in patients who have been treated with radiotherapy.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi
دوره 9 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003