Traumatic incarceration of the small bowel: case report.
While bowel injuries associated with blunt abdominal trauma are a well recognized entity, entrapment of bowel between vertebral bodies has seldom been described. The unusual case of traumatic jejunal incarceration between two lumbar vertebrae is presented.
Eldridge
T J
TJ
Department of Surgery, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45409.
McFall
T M
TM
Peoples
J B
JB
D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*