<unk>  is the<unk>  or rupture of the intestine's walls by its internal contents, such as hardened feces or foreign objects. Hardened stools may form in prolonged constipation or other diseases which cause obstruction of transit, such as Chagas disease, Hirschprung's disease, toxic colitis, hypercalcemia, and megacolon. Symptoms can include abdominal distension, pain, and nausea.<unk>  is a rare and very dangerous, life-threatening situation, as well as a surgical emergency, because the spillage of contaminated intestinal contents into the abdominal cavity leads to peritonitis, a rapid bacteremia (bacterial infection of the blood), with many complications.
Stercoral perforation
Subungual hematoma
Visceroptosis
Pulmonary laceration
Collaural fistula
Inspissation
Omental infarction
Salivary gland fistula