Bowel Perforation Due to Complicated Jejunal Diverticulitis: A Rare Case Report and Literature Review

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Mauro Giambusso Paolo Mirco Marta Di Grezia Valentina Bianchi

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Mauro Giambusso
Emergency and Trauma Surgery Unit, A. Gemelli University Hospital Foundation and IRCCS, Rome, Italy

A B S T R A C T

Small bowel diverticulosis is a rare and acquired disease usually diagnosed as an incidental radiological finding. We report the case of a 65-year-old man admitted to our Emergency Department with abdominal pain and fever. The CT-scan showed multiple jejunal diverticular eversions and oedema of the surrounding tissues. At urgent laparotomy the radiological finding was confirmed with microperforation of one diverticula. Bowel resection was performed and histology revealed erosive inflammation with ischemic mucosa. Small bowel diverticula do not require any treatment if asymptomatic, nevertheless cases like this could be life-threatening. Urgent surgical procedure must be the treatment of choice in these patients.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Feb 2023
Accepted: Wed 08, Mar 2023
Published: Thu 16, Mar 2023

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© 2023 Mauro Giambusso. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.AJSCR.2023.01.03