A Case of Perforative Peritonitis due to Radiation Enteritis 33 Years after Radiotherapy.

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  • 放射線治療３３年後に穿孔性腹膜炎をきたした放射線性腸炎の１例

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We report a case of perforative peritonitis due to radiation enteritis. An 88-year-old woman who had undergone pelvic irradiation for a gynecological malignancy was referred to our hospital due to hematomesis and epigastralgia with fever. We determined that she had perforative peritonitis, based on intraabdominal extrabowel gases in abdominal computed tomography. We conducted emergency operation to resect the damaged bowel, such as necrotic intestine combound with a damaged bladder in “frozen pelvis” and reconstruct jejuno-ascending colostomy. Pathological findings for resected specimens were compatible with radiation enteritis, such as excessive collagen deposition within the bowel wall, vasculitis, and intramural edema. The woman had a jejuno-subcutaneous fistula and suffered recurrent urinary infection or jaundice due to chronic hepatitis C after the surgical procedure. But eight months later, recovery enabled a successful second laparotomy to reconstruct the residual intestine. Even long after irradiation for malignant disease, radioactive damage to the body as a whole should always be considered.

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