[Vascular compression of the duodenum related to a plaster cast (the cast syndrome)].
Case report of a 15-year-old girl presenting compression of the duodenum by the superior mesenteric artery, occurring after the application of a body plaster cast for correction of a idiopathic thoracic scoliosis, which required a gastrojejunostomy. The clinical and radiological pictures of this case fall into the rare entity called the "cast syndrome". The salient features of this syndrome are commented.
Octavio de Toledo
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JM
Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Ntra. Sra. del Cristal, Orense.
Gómez Lorenzo
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F
Domínguez
J
J
Cimadevila
J
J
Bernárdez
J
J
Fernández
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P
D000293:Adolescent; D002370:Casts, Surgical / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004385:Duodenostomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007582:Jejunostomy; D008141:Lordosis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D011859:Radiography; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D013478:Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae