Blunt Isolated Small Bowel Perforation Intervention: Does a Delay in Management Matter?

Isolated small bowel perforation following blunt abdominal trauma.

Small bowel perforation from blunt abdominal trauma is a common injury. Isolated perforation of the small bowel after blunt abdominal trauma is infrequent and the diagnosis can be elusive. A case of isolated perforation from blunt trauma is presented. Deterioration of the clinical picture raised suspicion of acute abdomen, perforated sore. If acute abdomen is the case even with a history of min...

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Isolated Small Bowel Perforation After Blunt Abdominal Trauma: Report Of 2 Cases

Isolated perforation of the small bowel after blunt abdominal trauma is infrequent and the diagnosis can be elusive. Although computerized tomography is the modality most commonly used, there is no consensus over the optimal diagnostic approach. Diagnostic difficulties result in delayed surgical treatment and eventually in increased morbidity and mortality. We report two cases of isolated small...

Small Intestine Perforation due to Blunt Abdominal Trauma

Six years experience of blunt abdominal trauma leading to small intestine Perforation in Logh­rnan-e-Hakim Medical center. Between Sept. 1982 to Sept. 1988, 24 cases of abdominal blunt trauma leading to perforation of small intestine were managed at Loghman-e-Hakim Medical center. All the cases were treated surgically either by debridment and repair or resection and anas­tomosis, with no mortal...

Isolated gallbladder perforation following blunt abdominal trauma.

A 32-year-old man sustained an isolated perforation of the gallbladder following blunt abdominal trauma. A preoperative diagnosis was made on an ultrasound scan, which showed a pericholecystic fluid collection only. At laparotomy, a gallbladder perforation at the infundibulum was identified with a localised bile collection, warranting a cholecystectomy. Isolated gallbladder injury from blunt ab...