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Terminal Ileum Perforation
- Source :
- American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 42:e67-e68
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021.
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Abstract
- Intestinal perforation is an uncommon complication and presentation of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) infection in individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). The common site of perforation from VTEC infection is in the colon (and almost exclusively in the pediatric population), whereas PWS is in the stomach. Terminal ileum perforation is uncommon and is not reported in either these 2 conditions. We report a death from terminal ileum perforations in an adult who had PWS and was infected with VTEC. Potential reasons why the perforation occurred at this rare location, rather than in other more common location, in an adult are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
Perforation (oil well)
medicine.disease_cause
Gastroenterology
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
fluids and secretions
Ileum
Internal medicine
Terminal ileum
Humans
Medicine
Child
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Infections
Escherichia coli infection
business.industry
Stomach
nutritional and metabolic diseases
nervous system diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
VTEC
business
Complication
Prader-Willi Syndrome
Pediatric population
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1533404X and 01957910
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3b4633a39279ab74dff817362963359f