Acute Abdomen and Perforated Bowel with a Rare Pathology: Nonfamilial Visceral Myopathy

Visceral myopathy is a rare chronic disease affecting the peristalsis of the bowel causing intermittent pseudoobstruction. We report an atypical case of an eighty-nine-year-old woman with no prior history of abdominal illness who was admitted to our hospital with 2 days of increasing nausea, abdomin...

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Main Authors: Jakob Burcharth, Caroline Olsen, Jacob Rosenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Surgery
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/645349