A Case of Spontaneous Idiopathic Tension Pneumoperitoneum Successfully Managed with Bedside Pig-tail Catheter

Overview

Journal J Surg Case Rep

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2021 Dec 3

PMID 34858581

Authors

Wendy Chang

Mieko Udo

Bettina Schulze

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Abstract

We present a 67-year-old gentleman with a high perioperative mortality and morbidity risk who presented with spontaneous idiopathic tension pneumoperitoneum that was successfully managed with bedside pig-tail catheter insertion. Here we also discuss other potential non-surgical aetiologies of pneumoperitoneum.

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