Rare Case of Ileal Perforation
Published: July 1, 2013 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2013/.3157
Vinod Kumar B, John Joseph S Martis, Sheldon G Mathias, Priyatham Kamath, Vivek Shetty
1. Senior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Father
Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka – 575002,
India.
2. Professor, Department of General Surgery, Father Muller
Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka – 575002, India.
3. Senior resident, Department of General Surgery, Father
Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka – 575002,
India.
4. Senior resident, Department of General Surgery, Father
Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka – 575002,
India.
5. Resident, Department of General Surgery, Father Muller
Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka – 575002, India.
Correspondence
Dr Vinod Kumar B,
S/o Rukmaya B, Mayyarabailu, Balehithlu house,
Bantwal, D.K, Karnataka – 574211, India.
Phone: 9611321700
E-mail: vinnudoc1998@yahoo.co.in
Ileitis, or inflammation of the ileum, is often caused by Crohn’s disease. However, ileitis may be caused by a wide variety of other diseases. These include infectious diseases, spondyloarthropathies, vasculitides, ischemia, neoplasms, medication-induced, eosinophilic enteritis, and others. Eosinophilic enteritis can present as abdominal pain, protein loosing enteropathy, ulcers, intestinal obstruction, intussusception and perforation.Bowel perforation is an uncommon presentation of eosinophilic enteritis. We report a rare case of ileal perforation due to eosinophilic enteritis in a 57 years old female.
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