Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Fecaloma is a mass of hardened faeces difficult to pass through the intestinal lumen. Due to various reasons, a bolus of fecal matter stagnates, accumulates and inspisates in the intestinal lumen, until it becomes big enough to cause intestinal obstruction. Though there are various predisposing factors for the formation of fecaloma but the actual cause of fecaloma formation is still unknown. Small gut fecalomas are very rare. Herein we are presenting a case of 50 year male who underwent laparotomy three times for small gut obstruction caused due to recurrent formation of small gut fecaloma. To our knowledge it is the first case report of recurrent small gut fecaloma obstruction to be reported.
Source: J Med Sci
Institution: Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3097649684