[Giant fecal impaction as a cause of female incontinence (Fecaloma) and bladder instability. Contribution with one case]

Actas Urol Esp. 2004 Jul-Aug;28(7):527-9. doi: 10.1016/s0210-4806(04)73123-x.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We present a case of a 60 years old female patient, with previous depressive disorders, an attempted suicide with pelvic injuries, who comes showing two years evolution of emergence incontinence. The was diagnosed with a giant fecal impaction occuping almost all the pelvic zone and leading to a bladder displacement and right ureteral ectasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Constipation / complications*
  • Constipation / diagnostic imaging
  • Constipation / therapy
  • Fecal Impaction / complications*
  • Fecal Impaction / diagnostic imaging
  • Fecal Impaction / therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / etiology*
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / therapy
  • Urinary Incontinence / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Incontinence / etiology*
  • Urinary Incontinence / therapy
  • Urography