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Seat belt injuries and sigmoid colon trauma
1Department of General Surgery, Royal Alexandra Hospital, UK.
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine
|October 8, 1997
Abstract:
Colonic seat belt injuries are rare but carry higher mortality rates than small bowel injuries. The case of a 44 year old man is described who had severe sigmoid colon compression injury from his seat belt a few days after a road traffic accident.