Acute Abdomen caused by Perforated Jejunal Diverticulitis
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[Jejunal diverticulitis as the cause of acute abdomen].
We present two patients with jejunal diverticulitis. Diverticula in jejunum and ileum are very rare, occurring with an incidence of 0.07-2% in the gastrointestinal tract. They are often associated with unspecific symptoms as intermittent abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhoea. The treatment of mild diverticular disease is intravenous fluids and antibiotics. If there is an occurrence of peritoniti...
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عنوان ژورنال: IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2735-2285,1823-4631
DOI: 10.31436/imjm.v20i3.1445