Peritonitis
Image Gallery
[ (
||image_reduire{0,60}|inserer_attribut{alt,Acute peritonitis in acute appendicitis})
]
Definition: Peritoneal inflammation.
Types
acute peritonitis
chronic peritonitis
- granulomatous peritonitis
Etiology
infectious peritonitis
peritonitis in pan-serositis
- metabolic (uremia, cholesterolosis)
- autoimmune (systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid disease, acute rheumatism, endocrinopathies)
- genetic (recurrent hereditary polyserositis)
- allergic (eosinophilic serositis)
- granulomatous peritonitis
See also
serositis
References
Serositis: comparative analysis of histological findings and pathogenetic mechanisms in nonbacterial serosal inflammation. Dobbie JW. Perit Dial Int. 1993;13(4):256-69. PMID: 8241326