Di Leo A, Busetti R, Pusiol T, Piscioli F, Franceschetti I, Ricci F. Intestinal obstruction associated with chronic peritonitis caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis.
Clin J Gastroenterol 2009;
2:178-182. [PMID:
26192291 DOI:
10.1007/s12328-009-0066-z]
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Abstract
We describe a very rare case of chronic peritonitis with secondary adhesive intestinal obstruction caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis in a healthy 28-year-old Chinese man. This bacillus has not been described as a cause of spontaneous peritonitis in healthy people. It was an asymptomatic, generalized, and slow-growing peritonitis causing peritoneal adherens and at the end intestinal occlusion that needed surgical adhesiolysis.
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