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Nonspecific ulcerated jejunitis as an unusual complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Report of a case

Surgery Today, ISSN: 0941-1291, Vol: 30, Issue: 3, Page: 277-281
2000
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We describe herein the case of a 65-year-old man in whom a lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage developed a few days after he underwent an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A laparotomy was performed on postoperative day 16 and a jejunal segment containing mucosal changes and oozing ulcers was resected. Pathologic examination of the specimen revealed 'nonspecific ulcerated jejunitis.' There is no explanation for the etiopathogenesis of this pathology; however, we concluded that this clinical picture may be attributed to ischemia-reperfusion injury that occurred following an ischemic period caused by the pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopic surgery.

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