enterorrhexis
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enterorrhexis (uncountable)
- (medicine, rare) Rupture of the intestine.
- 1997 February, Li Li, Chen Shaoli, “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Enterorrhexis Caused by Closed Abdominal Injury”, in Clinical Medicine of China:
- This paper reports 67 cases of enterorrhexis caused by closed abdominal injury, in which 11 cases are of duodenal rupture (16.42%), 48 of jejuno-ileuc rupture (71. 64%) and 8 of colonic rupture (11.94%).
- 2001 October 5, Anna Deltsidou, “Cocaine abuse in pregnancy”, in Epitheorese Klinikes Farmakologias Kai Farmakokinetikes, International Edition, volume 16:
- Prenatal exposure of the neonate to cocaine can be associated with severe defects of gastro-intestinal tract, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (43-45) and enterorrhexis (46), which are due to vasoconstriction, because of the general hypoxia and ischaemia of the fetus.
- 2008 May, Shigeru Nakakimura, Fumiaki Sasaki, Tadao Okada, Atsushiro Arisue, Kazutoshi Cho, Masami Yoshino, Yonehiro Kanemura, Mami Yamaski, Satoru Todo, “Hirschsprung's disease, acrocallosal syndrome, and congenital hydrocephalus: report of 2 patients and literature review”, in Journal of pediatric surgery, volume 43, number 5:
- To prevent colitis and enterorrhexis, it is important that we consider HSCR in patients with XLH and ACS for their early treatment such as in our 2 cases.