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14964027

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-2-13
pubmed:abstractText
A 77-year-old woman who had been examined 8 months previously because of chronic abdominal pain and an altered pattern of defecation presented to the emergency department with complaints of nausea, vomiting and acute pain in the abdomen. Her appetite was diminished and she had lost 10 kg in the past year. The abdominal X-ray showed a balloon-like, gas-filled intra-abdominal configuration, which proved to be a giant diverticulum of the sigmoid. She was treated by resection of the diverticulum and the sigmoid. A giant diverticulum is a rare complication of diverticulosis, a frequently occurring condition that is encountered most often in the sigmoid; the complication can easily be missed. The presenting symptoms can vary from an acute abdomen to chronic non-specific abdominal complaints. The most important complications of a giant diverticulum are perforation, obstruction or a volvulus. In view of the severity of these complications, resection of that part of the intestine in which the giant diverticulum arises is the treatment of choice.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
dut
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0028-2162
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
148
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
143-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
[Giant diverticulum of the sigmoid].
pubmed:affiliation
Afd. Interne Geneeskunde, Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam. w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports