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NECROTIZING ENTERITIS
Author(s) -
Woodward W. W.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1960.tb03084.x
Subject(s) - medicine , enteritis , palpation , ascites , lumen (anatomy) , abdomen , ileum , disease , ileitis , surgery , gastroenterology , crohn's disease
Summary 1. Three fatal examples of necrotic enteritis are reported. In two patients the disease followed neither surgery nor antibiotic therapy. 2. The lower abdomen of one patient was dull to percussion though the urinary bladderwas empty and ascites absent at necropsy. For want of other explanation this is ascribed to fluid in the lumen and cngestion in the wall of the ileum. 3. At necropsy on that patient the disease was not visible from the serosal aspect ofthe bowel. Hence at laparatomy recog‐nition might require palpation of the bowel.