Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy
Robert H Krieger1, Katherine M Wojcicki1, Andrew C Berry2
1Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCU), 1750 E. Independence Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64106, USA.
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.
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