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How long can someone have a bowel perforation and be unaware of it?
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Most will be aware: Generally a bowel perforation causes peritonitis and severe symptoms. On occasion a small perforation can become walled off and not cause peritonitis but it still would cause symptoms in most, but not all, cases. Patients on corticosteroid medication can have a "silent" perforation. The very elderly and patients debilitated by other illness may also have "silent" perforations.
Answered 6/30/2018
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