BACKGROUND Little was known about gastrointestinal perforation secondary to foreign body in adults, which was only documented by several case series reports. The aim of this study was to characterize it with comparative methods. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted on twenty patients with the diagnosis of gastrointestinal perforation secondary to foreign body between January 2003 and O...

Spontaneous ileal perforation is a very rare cause of peritonitis. It occurs, in most of the cases, as a complication of Crohn's disease or intestinal tuberculosis. We present the case of a 23-year-old female patient with multiple surgical interventions during the last year, for iterative ileal spontaneous perforation with generalized peritonitis of which cause was initially assigned to intesti...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal intestinal perforation usually occurs at distal small bowel secondary to distal bowel obstruction. The aim of this report is to describe an unusual case of total colonic aganglionosis with an initial presentation of proximal jejunal perforation. PRESENTATION OF CASE A male newborn presented with jejunal perforation on the fifth day of life and was treated by laparoscopic...

Meconium pseudocyst formation secondary to antenatal perforation is well described. We present a preterm infant who had intra-abdominal pseudocyst formation following postnatal intestinal perforation secondary to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and secondarily leading to extra-abdominal collar stud abscess. This is new face of NEC and this presentation has not been reported earlier.

A 6-year-old intact male Jindo dog was presented for reduced appetite, depression, and tympanic abdominal distension. Abdominal radiographs showed severe pneumoperitoneum an intestinal mass. Computed tomography revealed massive associated with perforation, cervical thoracoabdominal wall emphysema, pneumomediastinum, pneumoretroperitoneum, pneumoscrotum, peritonitis. Surgery confirmed a ruptured...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to study the imaging features, management, and outcome of pneumatosis intestinalis and bowel perforation associated with molecular targeted therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, 48 patients with cancer who developed pneumatosis or intestinal perforation were found by searching a radiology database. Of these patients, 24 patients (...

INTRODUCTION By presenting this case we aimed to describe an uncommon complication of generalized peritonitis following spontaneous pyometra perforation in untreated cervical carcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION This report describes a 60-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with clinical features mimicking intestinal perforation who was later diagnosed as cervical carcinoma with pyometra perfora...

INTRODUCTION An ingested foreign body often passes the gastrointestinal tract without any complications. Foreign bodies, such as dentures, fish bones, chicken bones, and toothpicks, have been known to cause perforation of the GI tract. CASE PRESENTATION We are presenting a case of a fifty-year-old male with acute abdomen; diffuse fibro purulent peritonitis, i.e. ileum perforation, caused by a...

Taenia saginata (T. saginata) is one of the most common cestode in human. We report a case of intestinal perforation caused due to T. saginata infection. The patient, 54-year-old female, had intermittent abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting on referral. Intestinal obstruction and perforation leading to necrosis, and volvulus due to an impacted tapeworm was observed. Histopathological examinati...

Type II enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL) is a rare disease that is reported from Asia, especially from Taiwan. In this paper, we present a patient from Iran (Arab) with Type II EATL whose disease was not associated with celiac disease or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. The patient died due to intestinal perforation during the first chemotherapy. Type II EATL is a gastrointestin...