Stercoral perforation
Stercoral perforation is the perforation or rupture of the intestine's walls by its internal contents, such hardened feces or foreign objects. Hardened stools may form in long constipations or other diseases which cause obstruction of transit, such as Chagas disease, Hirschprung's disease, toxic colitis, hypercalcelmia, and megacolon.
Symptoms can include abdominal distension, pain, and nausea.
Stercoral perforation is a rare and very dangerous, life-threatening situation, as well as a surgical emergency, because the spillage of contaminated intestinal contents into the abdominal cavity leads to peritonitis, a rapid bacteremia, with many complications.
