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Entrapment of bowel within a spinal fracture
R M Rodger1, P Missiuna, S Ein
1Department of Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
Entrapment of bowel by fracture fragments is extremely rare. A case of entrapment of a loop of jejunum between two vertebral bodies in the lumbar spine is reported. The mechanism appeared to be a hyperextension force with a rotatory component.