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Delayed Perforation of the Intestine after Abdominal Trauma—A Case of Complications in Major Trauma Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

L. Johansson ,
A. Jonsson ,
S. Lennquist ,
P.-O Nystrom  and
K. Norrby
L. Johansson
Affiliation:
Departments of Surgery and Pathology II, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden and the National Defence Research Institute, Sundbyberg, Sweden.
A. Jonsson
Affiliation:
Departments of Surgery and Pathology II, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden and the National Defence Research Institute, Sundbyberg, Sweden.
S. Lennquist
Affiliation:
Departments of Surgery and Pathology II, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden and the National Defence Research Institute, Sundbyberg, Sweden.
P.-O Nystrom
Affiliation:
Departments of Surgery and Pathology II, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden and the National Defence Research Institute, Sundbyberg, Sweden.
K. Norrby
Affiliation:
Departments of Surgery and Pathology II, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden and the National Defence Research Institute, Sundbyberg, Sweden.
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The mortality rate for penetrating trauma of the abdomen has declined to a present rate of approximately 10%. However, blunt abdominal trauma still carries a high mortality, in some reports up to 30%. This is due mainly to major trauma with a resulting slow onset of symptoms sometimes resulting in a delay in diagnosis and treatment. One possible cause of delayed symptomatology after abdominal trauma could be delayed perforation of intestinal wall hemorrhages. A survey of the literature on this type of intestinal lesion was done in 1977 by Hughes et al, who found 260 clinical reports of intestinal wall hematomas.

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Research Article
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 26 - 27
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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