Background Spontaneous colon perforation can be classified into stercoral and idiopathic.
Stercoral type is associated with chronic constipation, thus it is rare in infants and children …

Idiopathic colon perforation is rare in children. It is more common at the extremes of age.
Splenic flextures, ileocecal and lower sigmoid regions are the most common sites of …

BACKGROUND: Spontaneous perforation of the colon in full-term neonates is a rare case,
with perforation of the cecum being rarely reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a …

Purpose: Intestinal perforation is a rare entity in paediatric age group when compared to
adults. This entity has attracted little attention and the causes have not been elaborated. A …

Spontaneous colonic perforation in adults (SCPA) is rare but important. Its
clinicopathological features and outcomes remain unclear. Therefore, the aim of the current …

Stercoral perforation is a rare sequela of poorly controlled constipation that is more
commonly seen in older, bedridden patients than in pediatric patients. We present the case …

Stercoral perforation is rare spontaneous rupture of the bowel that is associated with a high
risk of mortality. Cases of stercoral perforation have typically been reported in adults, with …

Colon perforation is an abdominal surgical emergency in the pediatric population, but is
seldom reported when occurring from non-traumatic causes in children beyond the neonate …

Background: In children beyond the neonatal stage, spontaneous bowel perforation with no
specific cause is rare. It has attracted little notice and does not fit into any established clinical …

Perforation of the transverse colon in neonate is a rare finding in clinical practice. We report
a case of Idiopathic neonatal colonic perforation in a twenty-one days old, healthy, female …