Laparoscopic suture repair of idiopathic gastric perforation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

• Main Authors: Go Miyano (Author), Hiroshi Nouso (Author), Keiichi Morita (Author), Hideaki Nakajima (Author), Mariko Koyama (Author), Masakatsu Kaneshiro (Author), Hiromu Miyake (Author), Masaya Yamoto (Author), Koji Fukumoto (Author), Naoto Urushihara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We report herein an adolescent case of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with idiopathic gastric perforation, in which emergency surgical repair was performed laparoscopically. A 14-year-old nonambulatory boy with DMD was brought to our emergency department with sudden onset of severe abdominal pain...