EMERGENCY SUB TOTAL COLECTOMY FOR CHRONIC CONSTIPATION

Authors
BROMBACHER GD MURRAY WR
Citation
Gd. Brombacher et Wr. Murray, EMERGENCY SUB TOTAL COLECTOMY FOR CHRONIC CONSTIPATION, Scottish Medical Journal, 43(1), 1998, pp. 21-22
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Scottish Medical Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00369330
Volume
43
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
21 - 22
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-9330(1998)43:1<21:ESTCFC>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Severe chronic constipation presents a significant management problem which may, occasionally, necessitate surgical intervention. Rarely eme rgency-surgery is required and we report a case in which emergency sub total colectomy was indicated to treat faecal peritonitis secondary to stercoral ulceration.