The extremely rare case of 83-year old woman with rupture of the gallbladder due to blunt abdominal trauma is presented. Patient's general condition was complicated because of coagulopathy caused by oral anticoagulant what has contributed to intra-abdominal haemorrhage. The rupture of the gallbladder and rupture of the liver were found during operation. The diagnosis of rupture of the gallbladd...

Laparoscopy has been used for the diagnosis and treatment for hemodynamically stable patients with penetrating abdominal trauma. This study evaluated whether diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy can be used as effectively in select patients with blunt abdominal trauma. All hemodynamically stable patients undergoing operations for blunt abdominal trauma over a 10-year period (2006-2015) at a t...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a critical illness involving skin and soft tissues, which may develop after blunt abdominal trauma causing abdominal wall hernia and representing a great challenge for physicians. A 52-year-old man was brought to the emergency department after a road accident, presenting blunt abdominal trauma with a large non-reducible mass in the lower-right abdomen. A first, CT showe...

BACKGROUND In stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma, accurate diagnosis of visceral injuries is crucial. OBJECTIVES To determine whether repeating ultrasound exam will increase the sensitivity of focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) through revealing additional free intraperitoneal fluid in patients with blunt abdominal trauma. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed a prospective...

introduction delayed splenic rupture (dsr) is an unusual outcome following blunt abdominal trauma. although dsr is defined as bleeding more than 48 hours after blunt trauma in a previously hemodynamically stable patient, a review of the reported cases in the literature shows that in almost all of the cases the initial ct imaging revealed some form of damage to the spleen. case presentation here...

Small bowel stenosis due to blunt abdominal trauma is rare. This paper reports a Gurkha soldier who sustained apparently minor trauma in a flying accident and presented 11 weeks later with abdominal pain. After extensive investigations, a post-traumatic small bowel stricture was identified and excised.