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Traumatic perforation of duodenal diverticulum
A Poostizadeh1, K W Gow, T Al-Mahmeed
1Department of Surgery, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center and the University of British Columbia, Canada.
The Journal of Trauma
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
A fragile 72-year-old female with previous coronary artery disease sustained blunt abdominal trauma in a motor vehicle crash. A ruptured duodenum was identified by computed tomography scanning. Exploratory laparotomy revealed that the duodenal rupture was caused by perforation of a diverticulum in the second portion of the duodenum. The surgical management of the injury to the duodenum is described in detail.