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Ogilvie Syndrome with Caecal Perforation in the Post‐Caesarean Patient
Author(s) -
Tang Peter T.M.,
Collopy Brian T.,
Somerville Michael
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1995.tb01846.x
Subject(s) - perforation , medicine , distension , general surgery , pediatrics , surgery , materials science , punching , metallurgy
EDITORIAL COMMENT: We accepted this case for publication because it warns us again that postoperative distension can be associated with spontaneous perforation of the colon. The authors provide a detailed account of the appropriate management. Readers are referred to the previous editorial comment on Ogilvie syndrome ‘Atypical Ogilvie syndrome’. Paraskevaides E C. Aust NZ J Obstet Gynecol 1988; 28:148–149. To update the comment the case reported here is the first to occur in 112,280 confinements including 16,548 Caesarean sections at the Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne to August 31, 1994.