Citation

Martínez-Albaladejo M, Barnés-Sosa M, Hallal H. Rev. Esp. Enferm. Dig. 1995; 87(7): 531-533.

Vernacular Title

Obstruccion intestinal retardada por cinturon de seguridad.

Affiliation

Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Comarcal del Noroeste, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva, Publisher Aran Ediciones)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7662421

Abstract

During blunt abdominal trauma the small bowel and/or its mesentery may be injured; if abdominal trauma occurs after compression by an incorrectly-applied seat belt, underlying viscera may be crushed between the vertebral and the seat belt; ischemia or infarction of the intestinal wall, and delayed fibrosis and stenosis may occur. We present a patient, operated on two months after blunt abdominal trauma, with small bowel obstruction secondary to post-traumatic intestinal fibrosis. Assuming that this condition is rarely suspected, a delayed diagnosis and treatment of these patients may occur.

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