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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2011-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Surgery |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/645349 |