Laparoscopic treatment of acute abdomen due to a massive gastric dilatation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Carlos Yánez Benítez; Jorge Escartín Valderrama; Juan Luis Blas Laina
- Source
- Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas. 112
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Abdominal pain
Past medical history
medicine.diagnostic_test
Gastric Dilatation
business.industry
General surgery
Gastroenterology
Achalasia
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Palpation
humanities
Tenderness
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Acute abdomen
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1130-0108
We present the case of a 23-year-old female patient with a past medical history of achalasia and laparoscopic seromiotomy. She presented to the Emergency Department with an acute abdomen, characterized by abdominal pain, fever and diffuse tenderness on palpation.