Intestinal Evisceration in Domestic Violence: A Stab Wound Injury

Plaies abdominales avec épiplocèle Abdominal stab wound injury with omentum evisceration

Introduction. – The abdominal stab wound with omentum evisceration, represent 4 to 20% of abdominal injuries. It causes a problem of therapeutic indication between selective and mandatory laparotomy. The goal of this work is to give some answers to this dilemma. Materiel and methods. – A retrospective study from 1992 to 2000, concerning 75 patients presenting an omentum evisceration. Where ther...

A penetrating orbitocranial stab wound.

An unusual case of intracranial penetration of a bread knife through the orbit is described. Despite the proximity of the blade to the internal carotids, the optic nerves and chiasm, and the pituitary the patient survived with only a minimal field defect affecting the eye opposite to the entry site; otherwise no neurological or endocrine deficit was evident.

Complex cardiac stab wound.

Parastomal Intestinal Evisceration

A 23-year-old male with a history of Crohn’s disease and prior ileostomy, presented to the emergency department complaining of his “intestines coming out.” The patient reported feeling pain and a fullness in his ileostomy bag after being punched in the abdomen. The bag was removed and an evisceration of approximately two feet (60 cm) of his small intestine around the ileostomy stoma was noted (...

Stab Wound of Enlarged Spleen