Acute intestinal obstruction caused by the ileum becoming adherent to a lithopedion / by J.H. Bryant.

  • Bryant, John Henry.
Date:
[1899?]
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Credit: Acute intestinal obstruction caused by the ileum becoming adherent to a lithopedion / by J.H. Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ACUTE INTESTINAL OBSTEUCTION CAUSED BY THE ILEUM BECOMING ADHERENT TO A LITHOPBDION. By J. H. BRYANT, M.D. I HAVE thought this case worthy of puhlication for two reasons, firstly on account of the extreme rarity of the occurrence of a lithopedion, and secondly because, as far as I know, acute intestinal obstruction from this cause is unique. A very full account of lithopedions is given in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, vol. viii., No. 80, p. 221, by Dr. J. G. Clark. He reports an interesting example of this con- dition, and gives a review of the cases hitherto published. He refers to Kuchenmeister’s table of forty-seven cases reported between the years 1582 and 1880, and mentions eighteen others published subsequently, in addition to his own case, in all, a list of sixty-seven. No mention is made of any of these cases ter- minating fatally as a result of acute intestinal obstruction from the intestine becoming adherent to the lithopedion. In the case recorded below the cause of the intestinal obstruction was, partly kinking and partly strangulation. A small loop of