Before any serious discussion of spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) etiology can commence, it is necessary to dispense with the idea that SIP and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) are ...

‌Gastrointestinal perforation is when a hole develops in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This condition can easily have serious complications that could result in death. Early detection and ...

Prenatal rectal perforation is extremely rare. To date, only one report describes three cases of prenatal extraperitoneal rectal perforation, associated with a para-rectal defect of the pelvic floor ...

When an ulcer creates an actual perforation in the digestive tract, surgery is currently the only treatment. In the ...

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

How and when "crust" forms at the margin of a tympanic membrane perforation (TMP) may serve as a predictor for healing outcome, research suggests. "Compared with perforations with early crust ...