Abstract

RODAS, Jorge; FRACHI, Fernando  and  GUTIERREZ, Tomás. SIGMOID COLON PERFORATION BY FOREIGN BODY INGESTION. Rev. Cir. Parag. [online]. 2012, vol.36, n.2, pp.23-24. ISSN 2307-0420.

ABSTRACT The ingestion of foreign bodies is a common problem in childhood, but it can also present at other ages, 80-90% of them, can progress spontaneously and then expulsed. Only 1% requires surgical intervention for its extraction. A case is presented of a patient with a surgical acute abdomen, because of a perforation of the sigmoid colon, secondary to an involuntary ingestion of a chicken bone. It was realize laparotomy, extraction of the bone, sigmoidectomy and Iliac colostomy.

Keywords : foreign body; perforation of the sigmoid.

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