Giant Fecaloma Causing Small Bowel Obstruction: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Fecaloma is a mass of hardened feces being impacted mostly in rectum and sigmoid. The most common sites of the fecaloma is the sigmoid colon and the rectum. There are several causes of fecaloma and have been described in association with Hirschsprung’s disease, psychiatric patients, Chagas disease,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
2015-04-01
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Series: | Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma |
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Online Access: | http://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_44289_7a2c09a2415edbee61af14457123a6cc.pdf |