A 25-year-old woman develops enteric fever in India on day 21. She develops sudden severe abdominal pain with free gas under diaphragm. What complicat...

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A 25-year-old woman develops enteric fever in India on day 21. She develops sudden severe abdominal pain with free gas under diaphragm. What complication?

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Intestinal perforation of Peyer's patches in the terminal ileum - the most feared enteric fever complication, typically in the third week

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Appendicitis

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Pancreatitis

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Cholecystitis

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Renal colic

uk-dtmh MCQ (SBA): Enteric Fever Perforation

A 25-year-old woman develops enteric fever in India on day 21. She develops sudden severe abdominal pain with free gas under diaphragm. What complication?