bowel oclusion

BACKGROUND: Bowel obstruction due to accidental ingestion of foreign objects occurs rarely in children because 80 to 90% of the objects can pass freely through the gastrointestinal tract. CASE REPORT: We report a case of a 14-month-old infant who presented bowel obstruction caused by the ingestion of hydrogel beads (sodium polyacrylate). Hydrogel beads are used as sensory and didactic toys that can increase their initial size 200 to 400 times by liquid absorption...

BACKGROUND: Heterotopic ossification consists in abnormal differentiation of mesenchymal cells into osteoblastic cells, which may occur in the abdominal cavity. CASE REPORT: A 54-year-old male who presents with small bowel obstruction, performing a laparotomy, adhesiolysis, and managed with an open abdomen with Bogota bag; the abdominal wall was closed on the 5th post-operative day. Due to recurrent symptoms of intestinal obstruction, he required a re-laparotomy after 14 days, finding a frozen abdomen with midline calcified peritoneum...

UNLABELLED: In our clinical study postoperative peritonitis represent 17.01% by operations for neglected peritonitis. The other abdominal complications are eviscerations, postoperative oclusions and residual abscesses. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We have to analize the incidence, etiology, diagnosis and surgical management of 25 cases by postoperative peritonitis which appears after operations of 147 cases by neglected peritonitis. The semiology of a postoperative peritonitis it is easy to recognize in young pacients with reactions which appear in a few days after operations : pain localised to the abdominal area well localised in an area in which palpation show contraction...