Enough to bring a lump to the throat: two emergency presentations to the acute medical take

Northfield, J.; Beale, A.; Cannon, C.; Gonzalez, L.

Acute Medicine 11(3): 154-156

2012


ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4884
PMID: 22993746
Document Number: 12415
An eighty nine year old woman was admitted with a two day history of abdominal pain and vomiting. Two months previously she had undergone a Hartmann's procedure following a sigmoid perforation secondary to diverticular disease. A hiatus hernia had been noted on a CT undertaken prior to her recent surgery.

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Enough to bring a lump to the throat: two emergency presentations to the acute medical take