Diagnostic peritoneal lavage for blunt abdominal trauma: an unusual result
A M Hernandez1, R Saltz, J Hammond
1Division of Trauma Service, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, FL 33101.
Southern Medical Journal
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
We have reported the unusual finding of a grossly bile-stained peritoneal lavage 24 hours after blunt abdominal trauma, associated with neither enteric, hepatic, nor biliary tract injury at laparotomy. Intraoperative transcholecystic cholangiography is recommended in such a situation to rule out biliary tract injury.


