Closed abdominal trauma in a child causing avulsion of the common bile duct and gastric stasis.
A case of closed abdominal trauma causing complete transection of the supraduodenal common bile duct and gastric stasis in an 8-year-old boy is described. Surgical management involved re-establishment of biliary-enteric continuity and later gastric drainage to overcome gastric stasis. It is postulated that this child had sustained a traumatic vagotomy resulting in failure of gastric emptying. The literature does not report this complication of blunt abdominal injury.
D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D003135:Common Bile Duct / Q000293:injuries*; D005746:Gastric Emptying; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013270:Stomach / Q000293:injuries* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*