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 ...

Indeed, only sporadic cases of carcinoma of the large bowel with perforation have been reported as clinical entities, and few of these have been amenable to curative treatment. This paper is a ...

in extent. The bowel in these areas was friable, and 5 distinct points of perforation were found. The mucosa had numerous flat ulcers covered with dark-green slough. In the submucosa ...

Background: Knowledge of the factors influencing colonoscopic perforation (CP ... 10,124 endoscopic procedures of the colon (8,987 colonoscopies and 1,137 flexible sigmoidoscopies) were performed.

The primary end points of the study were endoscopic perforation of the colon. Risk factors for such a complication were then analyzed. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee.

Susan Warby, 57, was admitted to West Suffolk Hospital in July 2018 with a perforated bowel, but was given a dextrose drip instead of a saline one. She died of multi-organ failure and other ...