Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy
| Autor: | Robert H. Krieger, Katherine M. Wojcicki, Andrew C. Berry, Warren L. Reuther, Kendrick D. McArthur |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Surgery, Vol 2015 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2090-6900 2090-6919 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2015/378218 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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