title: Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy.
abstract: Chronic low back pain is one of the leading chief complaints affecting adults in the United States. As a result, this increases the percentage of patients that will eventually undergo surgical intervention to alleviate debilitating, chronic symptoms. A 37-year-old woman presented ten hours postoperatively after a lumbar laminectomy with an acute abdomen due to the extraordinarily rare complication of small bowel injury secondary to deep surgical penetration.
authors.affiliation: Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCU), 1750 E. Independence Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64106, USA.
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Krieger
authors.affiliation: Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCU), 1750 E. Independence Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64106, USA.
authors.forename: Katherine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Wojcicki
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36608, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, West Palm Hospital, West Palm Beach, FL 33407, USA.
authors.forename: Warren L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Reuther
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, West Palm Hospital, West Palm Beach, FL 33407, USA.
authors.forename: Kendrick D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: McArthur