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PAUL A. KAUFMAN, M.D.; HYMAN SWERDLOW, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1953;67(4):612-615.

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RUPTURE of the intestine has interested military and civilian surgeons since antiquity and has been described as due to a wide variety of causes ranging from penetrating abdominal wounds to comparatively nonviolent muscular effort.¹ Review of the literature would indicate a paucity of reports on bowel rupture following colon irrigations. In 1952 Greene and Greene² reported an instance of bowel perforation during the course of a colostomy irrigation, stating that they were able to find only one prior reference³ to this condition in the literature. Shortly thereafter, Berk⁴ described another instance, and more recently Bettman, Richter, and Drugas⁵ have added another case report. We believe, however, that there must exist numerous unreported episodes of this kind, since Gabriel⁶ was able to collect eight such accidents in the experience at the Saint Mark's Hospital of London in the period between 1937 and 1944, and we . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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