Citation

Nosanov LB, Barthel ER, Pierce JR. J. Pediatr. Surg. 2011; 46(12): e33-5.

Affiliation

Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.09.045

PMID

22152904

Abstract

We describe an unusual case of sigmoid colon perforation secondary to a bicycle handlebar injury. Because the patient presented 2 days after the initial injury, we suspected that the colon perforation was not the immediate result of the bicycle accident but, rather, was secondary to devascularization. At operation, we found a bucket-handle tear of the colonic mesentery, which was the patient's primary injury and cause of the perforated colon.

Language: en