Background
Benign causes of gastrointestinal perforation constitutes one of the most common and important surgical emergency.
Methods
A total of 65 cases of benign causes of gastrointestinal perforation were studied. Patients are selected randomly from admission at the place of study. All patients have been analyzed and results are compared with previous similar studies.
Result
Abdominal pain was seen in all the cases. 36.9% of patients had vomiting, 47.7% complained of distension of abdomen and 63.1% with fever. Tenderness was seen in all the cases with localized tenderness in majority of appendicular perforation. 80% of cases had guarding/rigidity with 47.7% patients presented with distension of abdomen. 71% of cases had gas under the diaphragm with majority of them in peptic ulcer perforation and least in appendicular perforation.
Conclusion
Mortality in our study was 3.1% and was due to septicemia with older age group, delayed presentation to hospital and other associated co-morbidities being the additive factors.
