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A J Richardson1, R Tevlin, J O Larkin
1St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4. alexanderjohn.richardson@gmail.com
Irish Medical Journal
|November 14, 2013
Abstract:
A 67 year-old man with paraplegia and depression presented with self-inflicted evisceration and small bowel injury. Damage control surgery was undertaken at emergency laparotomy with definitive anastomosis performed at second-look laparotomy following 24 hours resuscitation in ICU. He had an uncomplicated post-operative course and was discharged to an inpatient psychiatric unit.
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