Perforated Small Bowel Diverticulitis After Gastric Bypass

  • Ricard Corcelles
Publication date
August 2016

Abstract

We report a rare case of complicated jejunal diverticulitis in a patient with previous bariatric surgery. Small bowel diverticulosis is generally considered an inoffensive dis-ease. In this report we describe a case of small bowel perforation in an obese subject who had undergone lapa-roscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Key Words: Small bowel diverticulosis, Gastric bypass, Perforation

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