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Case Reports
. 2006 Jul 14;12(26):4262-3.
doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i26.4262.

Multiple small bowel ruptures due to ischemic enteritis: a case report

Stylianos Delikoukos  1 , Gregorios Christodoulidis, Dimitrios Zacharoulis, Antigoni Poultsidi, Constantine Hatzitheofilou
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Case Reports

Multiple small bowel ruptures due to ischemic enteritis: a case report

Stylianos Delikoukos et al. World J Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

A rare case of multiple small bowel ruptures due to ischemic enteritis (ISE) is reported. The patient was admitted to the hospital with acute abdominal pain followed by bloody diarrhoeas. Preoperative colonoscopic findings were similar to those presented in Crohn's disease. Intraoperatively, ischemic lesions and multiple ruptures were localized at the jejunum and the proximal ileum. Histopathological examination of the resected bowel segment established the diagnosis of ISE. Although ISE is not common, concurred multiple ruptures of the small bowel is a rare but actual complication.

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