DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i01.006

Pages: 19-22

Small Bowel Perforations (SBPs) due to causes other than trauma and known common etiological factors (mesenteric vascular disease, internal and external hernias, intraabdominal adhesions, inflammatory bowel diseases, and iatrogenic) are also called spontaneous or non-traumatic SBPs, Presentation at the hospital is generally late, and patients are in an impaired physical condition due to diffuse peritonitis, we report the case of acute peritonitis secondary to an isolated ileal perforation discovered in a patient operated on in the surgical emergency.