SCLEROSING ENCAPSULATING PERITONITIS - AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF LISTERIA PERITONITIS

Authors
DOUZDJIAN V BROUGHAN TA
Citation
V. Douzdjian et Ta. Broughan, SCLEROSING ENCAPSULATING PERITONITIS - AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF LISTERIA PERITONITIS, Complications in surgery, 14(5), 1995, pp. 540-542
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Complications in surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
1053749X
Volume
14
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
540 - 542
Database
ISI
SICI code
1053-749X(1995)14:5<540:SEP-AU>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Listeria monocytogenes is an uncommon cause of peritonitis. Of the 34 cases of Listeria peritonitis reported, the majority have occurred in cirrhotic patients and patients on chronic peritoneal dialysis. We rep ort, for the first time, a case of sclerosing encapsulating peritoniti s in a cirrhotic patient with Listeria peritonitis and an indwelling p eritoneovenous shunt. Repeated operative interventions for removal of the fibrinopurulent exudate encasing the small bowel were necessary.