title: Intestinal obstruction associated with chronic peritonitis caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis.
abstract: We describe a very rare case of chronic peritonitis with secondary adhesive intestinal obstruction caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis in a healthy 28-year-old Chinese man. This bacillus has not been described as a cause of spontaneous peritonitis in healthy people. It was an asymptomatic, generalized, and slow-growing peritonitis causing peritoneal adherens and at the end intestinal occlusion that needed surgical adhesiolysis.
authors.affiliation: Operative Unit of Surgery, APSS of Trento, Arco Hospital, Via Capitelli 50/52, 38062, Arco (TN), Italy. dileomd@libero.it.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Leo
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, APSS of Trento, Arco Hospital, Arco (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Rosanna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Busetti
authors.affiliation: Operative Unit of Pathology, APSS of Trento, Rovereto Hospital, Rovereto (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pusiol
authors.affiliation: Operative Unit of Pathology, APSS of Trento, Rovereto Hospital, Rovereto (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Piscioli
authors.affiliation: Operative Unit of Pathology, APSS of Trento, Rovereto Hospital, Rovereto (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Franceschetti
authors.affiliation: Operative Unit of Surgery, APSS of Trento, Arco Hospital, Via Capitelli 50/52, 38062, Arco (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ricci
keywords: Adhesive obstruction; Chronic peritonitis; Sphingomonas paucimobilis