Management of Complex Duodenal Injuries After Penetrating Trauma

Penetrating injuries to the duodenum can present a complex case for trauma or acute care surgeons. The associated injuries and complications can have devastating results. This report presents the case of a 41-year-old male who presented with a gunshot wound to his abdomen and suffered a gastric inju...

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Autores principales: McCague, Andrew, Patterson, Brian, Taggart, Tracy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456438
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40431
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description Penetrating injuries to the duodenum can present a complex case for trauma or acute care surgeons. The associated injuries and complications can have devastating results. This report presents the case of a 41-year-old male who presented with a gunshot wound to his abdomen and suffered a gastric injury, transverse colon injury, duodenal injury, renal injury, and pancreatic tail injury. In this case, the patient underwent a complex Roux-en-Y reconstruction. The patient had a good outcome and continues to recover at home.
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spelling pubmed-103483942023-07-15 Management of Complex Duodenal Injuries After Penetrating Trauma McCague, Andrew Patterson, Brian Taggart, Tracy Cureus General Surgery Penetrating injuries to the duodenum can present a complex case for trauma or acute care surgeons. The associated injuries and complications can have devastating results. This report presents the case of a 41-year-old male who presented with a gunshot wound to his abdomen and suffered a gastric injury, transverse colon injury, duodenal injury, renal injury, and pancreatic tail injury. In this case, the patient underwent a complex Roux-en-Y reconstruction. The patient had a good outcome and continues to recover at home. Cureus 2023-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10348394/ /pubmed/37456438 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40431 Text en Copyright © 2023, McCague et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Management of Complex Duodenal Injuries After Penetrating Trauma
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