Entrapment of Bowel Within a Spinal Fracture Journal Articles

abstract

• Entrapment of bowel by fracture fragments is extremely rare. A case of entrapment of a loop of jejunum between two vertebral bodies in the lumbar spine is reported. The mechanism appeared to be a hyperextension force with a rotatory component.

authors

• Rodger, R Mark
• Missiuna, Paul
• Ein, Sigmund

status

• published 

publication date

• November 1991

has subject area

• 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine (FoR)
• Child, Preschool (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Intestinal Obstruction (MeSH)
• Jejunal Diseases (MeSH)
• Lumbar Vertebrae (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Orthopedics (Science Metrix)
• Radiography (MeSH)
• Spinal Fractures (MeSH)

published in

• Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics  Journal

keywords

• Child, Preschool
• Humans
• Intestinal Obstruction
• Jejunal Diseases
• Lumbar Vertebrae
• Male
• Radiography
• Spinal Fractures

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1097/01241398-199111000-00017

PubMed ID

• 1960207

start page

• 783

end page

• 785

volume

• 11

issue

• 6