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Pathology mimicking distal intestinal obstruction syndrome in cystic fibrosis
A M Dalzell1, D P Heaf, H Carty
1Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Respiratory Unit, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Eight patients with cystic fibrosis had chronic abdominal pain and the other features of distal intestinal obstruction syndrome. Coexistent abdominal pathology was shown in six patients. Two had a small bowel volvulus, and the others had Crohn's disease, a small bowel fistula, appendix abscess, and an ovarian dermoid. Opiate abuse exacerbated symptoms in two other patients.