A descriptive study on patients with intestinal perforation due to santol seeds, at the De La Salle University Medical Center, from January 2000 to December 2011

Publication Date

2013

Document Type

Research

Abstract

This study shows that clinicians should have a high index of suspicion of perforation by fruit seeds, when encountering patients that present with peritonis. Surgeons should also focus on the critical care preoperatively and postoperatively. Proper education of the masses should also be underway (for example lay forums and barangay hall lectures), to be able to decrease the morbidity and mortality caused by these prickly fruit seeds.

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