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Query: UMLS:C0021843 (
bowel obstruction
)
9,927
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Of 212 cases of peritonitis found in a retrospective study of geriatric inpatients, the most common causes were mesenteric infarction, malignancy,
intestinal obstruction
, perforated peptic ulcer, cholecystitis, diverticulitis and perforation of the urinary bladder. The diagnostic accuracy was 47%. Abdominal pain had been observed in only 55% of the cases, and guarding and/or
abdominal rigidity
in only 34%. Other findings such as tachycardia and fever were more common, but the specificities of these signs were low.
...
PMID:Peritonitis in geriatric inpatients. 205 10
