The Wandering Knife: A Case Report

Stab injuries to the abdomen have become a common occurrence, though retained objects are rare. A 22-year-old male presented with a left lower abdominal discomfort the next day after having a stab in the right hypochondrium. He was hemodynamically stable, with no signs of peritonitis. Abdominal X-ra...

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Autores principales: Nepal, Anamika, Rajbhandari, Ashish P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10545001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37789991
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44575
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description Stab injuries to the abdomen have become a common occurrence, though retained objects are rare. A 22-year-old male presented with a left lower abdominal discomfort the next day after having a stab in the right hypochondrium. He was hemodynamically stable, with no signs of peritonitis. Abdominal X-ray revealed a 15 cm long knife blade in the left lower abdomen. He underwent a laparotomy for the removal of the knife blade located inside the peritoneal cavity in his left iliac region without any injury to the surrounding viscera.
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spelling pubmed-105450012023-10-03 The Wandering Knife: A Case Report Nepal, Anamika Rajbhandari, Ashish P Cureus Gastroenterology Stab injuries to the abdomen have become a common occurrence, though retained objects are rare. A 22-year-old male presented with a left lower abdominal discomfort the next day after having a stab in the right hypochondrium. He was hemodynamically stable, with no signs of peritonitis. Abdominal X-ray revealed a 15 cm long knife blade in the left lower abdomen. He underwent a laparotomy for the removal of the knife blade located inside the peritoneal cavity in his left iliac region without any injury to the surrounding viscera. Cureus 2023-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10545001/ /pubmed/37789991 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44575 Text en Copyright © 2023, Nepal 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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