Seat belt injuries and sigmoid colon trauma.
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Seat belt injuries and sigmoid colon trauma.
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.
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.5.338