title: [Acute perforated sigmoid diverticulitis in childhood].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hernández-Siverio
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gómez Culebras
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Argüelles
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Luis
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: González Hermoso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bento Bravo
mesh_terms: 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
vernacular_title: Diverticulitis aguda de sigma perforada en la infancia.