Post-traumatic small bowel obstruction.
Small bowel stenosis due to blunt abdominal trauma is rare. This paper reports a Gurkha soldier who sustained apparently minor trauma in a flying accident and presented 11 weeks later with abdominal pain. After extensive investigations, a post-traumatic small bowel stricture was identified and excised.
Allen
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Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hants.
D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D000060:Accidents, Aviation; D000328:Adult; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007421:Intestine, Small; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*