RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Acute necrotising gastritis in a 14-year-old girl
JF BMJ Case Reports
JO BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e229102
DO 10.1136/bcr-2018-229102
VO 12
IS 5
A1 Arif, Sardar Hassan
A1 Mohammed, Ayad Ahmad
YR 2019
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/5/e229102.abstract
AB A 14-year-old female patient presented with acute generalised abdominal pain and two attacks of non-bilious vomiting for 2 days. She visited the emergency department and at presentation she was pale, dyspnaeic and there was no jaundice. Abdominal examination showed moderate abdominal distension with generalised abdominal tenderness. The bowel sounds were negative on auscultation. Plain abdominal X-ray showed hugely distended stomach with no free air detected in the peritoneal cavity. During laparotomy there was huge distension and gangrene of the stomach involving the whole stomach up to the fundus. Total gastrectomy done with roux-en-y reconstruction of the gastrointestinal continuity. The histopathological study of the sample showed gastric necrosis.