Complicated small-bowel diverticulosis: a case report and review of the literature
Edoardo Rimini1, Valentina Claudiani, Davide Pertile
1Department of Oncological Surgery, San Martino Hospital, Genoa.
Abstract:
Here we report a case of a 60 years old woman who came to the Emergency Department of San Martino Hospital suffering from abdominal pain for about a week with high fever in the last 24 hours. The final histological examination led to the diagnosis of ileal diverticulosis associated with perforation and peritonitis with a fibrotic reaction involving the last ileal loop, the caecum and the appendix.
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