INTRODUCTION Peritonitis due to peptic ulcer perforation is a surgical emergency with a high risk of mortality and morbidity. CASE PRESENTATION We present a rare case of a 54-year-old Caucasian man who underwent an emergency laparotomy for peritonitis caused by perforation of two peptic ulcers. The first was located on the anterior wall of the duodenum and the second was posterior, pre-pylori...

Method 54 patients who underwent primary repair of Oesophageal perforation from June 2002 to May 2014 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients of all ages, both sexes and benign thoracic oesophageal perforation were included. Malignant oesophageal perforation, benign cervical and abdominal esophageal perforation cases were excluded from the study. Patients were admitted through emergency departm...

Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies are a common condition in clinical practice. However, small bowel perforation which dues to ingestion foreign bodies has been rarely seen. In this article, we report a case of small bowel perforation which dues to ingestion foreign body. A 80-year-old female patient, presenting with complaints of acute abdomen, was admitted to the emergency department. She...

Iatrogenic perforation of the colon during elective colonoscopy is a serious complication. Surgical treatment remains the standard of care. We report a patient with a large colonic perforation that occurred during a screening colonoscopy, successfully repaired with laparoscopic methods. Although the safety and efficacy of this approach is not entirely established, laparoscopy can be used to tre...

BACKGROUND Perforation is a rare complication of gastric carcinoma, accounting for less than 1% of all gastric cancer cases. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the prognostic value of perforation and to point out the surgical treatment options. METHODS A total of 10 patients with perforated gastric carcinoma were retrospectively reviewed among 2564 consecutive cases of gastric cancer...

Background: Surgical repair of septal perforations has been historically cumbersome. Recently described techniques utilizing interposition grafting with polydioxanone (PDS) plates wrapped in a temporoparietal fascia (TPF) graft have reported successful closure 90% to 100% cases. Our objective is expand the investigation into use grafts combined for nasal perforation repair. Methods: Retrospecti...

Arare case of ileal perforation, as a fatal initial presentation of total colonic aganglionosis (TCA) in infancy is reported. A 10-week-old boy, was brought to the emergency department with symptoms of complicated intestinal obstruction. He looked ill, was lethargic, markedly dehydrated and had a severely distended abdomen. An abdominal X-ray revealed multiple air fluid levels seen in a distend...

A 45-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes and chronic renal failure on dialysis underwent simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from a brain dead donor. On postoperative day 15, acute generalized peritonitis was diagnosed and emergency laparotomy was performed. Perforation of the donor duodenum was found, which had apparently resulted from duodenal compression by the tip of the intestinal...