BLUNT INJURY ABDOMEN CAUSING HOLLOW VISCOUS COMPLETE TRANSECTION: A RARE CASE
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 18
Abstract
Abdominal Trauma is a common clinical entity occuring in an emergency surgical unit. It maybe be blunt or penetrating or blast injury. Blunt usually causes solid organ injury. 6 Blast causes hollow viscous injury. Penetrating injury may cause solid/ bowel injury depending on the injury.7 Blunt injury abdomen causing hollow viscous injury is rare (0.1%). of that,8 duodenal site injury is noted in 12% of cases.9 Complete transaction of Duodenum is very rare and only a few cases have been reported. Usually associated with associated lumbar spine transverse process fracture.
Authors and Affiliations
Balamurugan R , Ravi P, Shivraj B, Bhaskaran Selvapathy, Vikram Yogish
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