STERCORACEOUS PERFORATION OF THE PELVIC COLON—AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF PICA

1 September 1976

journal article
case report
Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol. 2 (10) , 385-386
https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb130262.x

Abstract

A case of stercoraceous perforation of the bowel in a 31-year-old woman, an habitual paper eater, is reported. Treatment was by evacuation of the faecal mass through the enlarged perforation and direct closure of the perforation without proximal colostomy.

Keywords

TREATMENT
EVACUATION
COLON
PERFORATION
PICA
PELVIC
COLOSTOMY
UNUSUAL
FAECAL
ENLARGED

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Stercoraceous Perforation of the Colon
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1972