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[Vascular compression of the duodenum related to a plaster cast (the cast syndrome)]
J M Octavio de Toledo1, F Gómez Lorenzo, J Domínguez
1Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Ntra. Sra. del Cristal, Orense.
Revista Espanola De Enfermedades Digestivas
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Case report of a 15-year-old girl presenting compression of the duodenum by the superior mesenteric artery, occurring after the application of a body plaster cast for correction of a idiopathic thoracic scoliosis, which required a gastrojejunostomy. The clinical and radiological pictures of this case fall into the rare entity called the "cast syndrome". The salient features of this syndrome are commented.