Laparotomy for Perforated Typhoid Ulcer

Perforated typhoid enteritis in children.

A prospective study of 65 patients with perforated typhoid enteritis managed operatively over a 3 year period at a university hospital is presented. There were 45 males and 20 females with ages ranging from 5 to 15 years. Presenting symptoms were fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and either diarrhoea or constipation. All the patients were subjected to surgery and 56 (86%) underwent two-layer bowe...

Perforated Peptic Ulcer.

Perforated peptic ulcer

Perforated peptic ulcer is a common emergency condition worldwide, with associated mortality rates of up to 30%. A scarcity of high-quality studies about the condition limits the knowledge base for clinical decision making, but a few published randomised trials are available. Although Helicobacter pylori and use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are common causes, demographic differences...

Typhoid Ulcer, Perforation

A Sikh Sepoy was admitted early in February suffering, as I then believed, from double lobar pneumonia. The bases of both lungs were dull on percussion and tubular breathing was heard on both sides over the dull area. Temperature at this time registered 103?. Pulse 110. I placed him at once on milk diet and treated him as an ordinary case of pneumonia. The temperature remained high, varying bet...

Perforated Typhoid Ulcer 1Read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, January 14th, 1903.

The subject of perforation in typhoid fever is one of perennial interest both to the physician and the surgeon. Upon the early recognition of its occurrence by the physician depends the success of interference by the surgeon. It is a field in which the surgeon has been more often baffled than victorious, and one in which he has but a limited opportunity of enlarging, and profiting by, his own p...