faecalith

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Noun1.faecalith - a hard mass of fecal matterfaecalith - a hard mass of fecal matter    
mass - a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
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SC may present with a spectrum ranging between impacted fecaloma associated with inflammation to colonic perforation.
One case report describes massive and fatal rectal bleeding a few hours after digital rectal evacuation of a fecaloma in an 84-yearold female with moderate renal dysfunction.
It is worth to point out that the most characteristic symptoms of these patients are the different degrees of constipation and further complications as fecaloma.
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