Laparoscopic treatment of a complication of diverticular colonic disease (Hinchey III).

Colonic diverticular disease is a condition that can determine serious evolutive infectious complications, which in many cases require surgical treatment.A clinical case of a patient with a colonic diverticular disease, presenting as a complication an acute diffuse peritonitis (Hinchey 3) is shown.T...

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Autores: Salom, Andrés, Cáceres, Gastón, Beraldo, Gerardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Uruguay
Institución:Sociedad de Cirugía del Uruguay
Repositorio:Revista Cirugía del Uruguay
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.revista.scu.org.uy:article/23
Acceso en línea:https://revista.scu.org.uy/index.php/cir_urug/article/view/23
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:divertículos
enfermedad diverticular
cirugía laparoscópica
diverticula
diverticular disease
laparoscopic surgery
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Sumario:Colonic diverticular disease is a condition that can determine serious evolutive infectious complications, which in many cases require surgical treatment.A clinical case of a patient with a colonic diverticular disease, presenting as a complication an acute diffuse peritonitis (Hinchey 3) is shown.Treatment was performed by laparoscopic surgery, cleaning the peritoneal cavity and placing a peritoneal drainage. The evolution was favorable.The main advantage of carrying out this conservative treatment is to have lower morbidity at the parietal level and to avoid carrying out a detransittional colostomy or an emergency colonic resection surgery.