ArticleBulletin of emergency and trauma2015
Giant Fecaloma Causing Small Bowel Obstruction: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
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- Fecaloma causing small bowel obstruction in the absence of risk factors: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Review
- Stitch-induced caecal fecolith: An unusual long-term complication following laparoscopic appendicectomy.Journal of minimal access surgery · 2025Article
- Assessing risk of recurrent small bowel obstruction after non-operative management in patients with history of intra-abdominal surgery: a population-based comprehensive analysis in Taiwan.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Large Sigmoid Fecaloma: A Rare Case of a Common Condition in Patients With Parkinson's Disease.Cureus · 2023Article
- A Delayed Presentation of Perforated Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma of the Small Bowel Resulting in a Large Interloop Faecaloma.Case reports in surgery · 2022Article
- Ileal fecalomas causing small bowel obstruction: A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2021Article
- Obstructive Fecalomas in an Infant Treated with Successful Endoscopic Disimpaction.Case reports in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Spontaneous Recurrent Pneumoperitoneum due to Opioid-Induced Constipation: A Case Report.Cureus · 2020Article
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- Colonoscopic Treatment of a Fecaloma at the Anastomotic Site after Colectomy.Case reports in gastroenterologyArticle
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Abstract
Fecaloma is a mass of hardened feces being impacted mostly in rectum and sigmoid. The most common sites of the fecaloma is the sigmoid colon and the rectum. There are several causes of fecaloma and have been described in association with Hirschsprung's disease, psychiatric patients, Chagas disease, both inflammatory and neoplastic, and in patients suffering with chronic constipation. Up to now several cases of giant fecaloma has been reported in the literature most of them presenting with megacolon or urinary retention. We herein report a case of giant fecaloma leading to bowel obstruction who was successfully treated by surgery. A 30-yrar-old man presented with sign and symptoms of acute bowel obstruction. He underwent exploratory laparotomy and enterotomy. He was found to have a giant fecaloma causing bowel obstruction in the jejunum. He was discharged after the operation with good condition. Jejunal fecaloma is extremely rare condition.
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