[Acute perforated sigmoid diverticulitis in childhood].
Colonic diverticulosis is a pathology of high incidence in normal population during the last decades of life. About 2-5 per 100 of patients admitted because of this disease are below 40 years old, and in this group of patients diverticulitis tends to be very aggressive with a high number of complications. We report a clinical case of acute perforation of sigmoid colon due to diverticulitis in a ten year old child who was treated surgically by means of resection of the sigma and primary end-to-end anastomosis. We did not find in the literature consulted any cases of this illness under twenty years of age.
Hernández-Siverio
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Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife.
Gómez Culebras
M A
MA
Alvarez-Argüelles
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H
Rodríguez Luis
J C
JC
González Hermoso
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F
Bento Bravo
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D012810:Sigmoid Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery
Diverticulitis aguda de sigma perforada en la infancia.