Background: Acute mesenteric ischaemia and duodenal perforation are surgical emergencies with serious consequences. Patients presenting with acute mesenteric ischaemia alone face a high mortality ...

Post-mortem examination showed a perforated duodenal ulcer and generalized peritonitis. Case 2. A forty-year-old man was admitted on May 7, 1947. In the past he had had symptoms characteristic of ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(3):345-348. Simple closure of perforation by an omental patch is the usual procedure performed for perforated duodenal ulcer. However, it has an unacceptably high ...

A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large intestine). This allows the bowel's contents to leak into the abdominal ...

A federal lawsuit filed on Monday accuses a southern Minnesota jail of failing to provide adequate medical care for a ...