Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy

Chronic low back pain is one of the leading chief complaints affecting adults in the United States. As a result, this increases the percentage of patients that will eventually undergo surgical intervention to alleviate debilitating, chronic symptoms. A 37-year-old woman presented ten hours postopera...

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Autores principales: Krieger, Robert H., Wojcicki, Katherine M., Berry, Andrew C., Reuther, Warren L., McArthur, Kendrick D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/378218
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author Krieger, Robert H.
Wojcicki, Katherine M.
Berry, Andrew C.
Reuther, Warren L.
McArthur, Kendrick D.
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description Chronic low back pain is one of the leading chief complaints affecting adults in the United States. As a result, this increases the percentage of patients that will eventually undergo surgical intervention to alleviate debilitating, chronic symptoms. A 37-year-old woman presented ten hours postoperatively after a lumbar laminectomy with an acute abdomen due to the extraordinarily rare complication of small bowel injury secondary to deep surgical penetration.
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spelling pubmed-45101132015-08-02 Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy Krieger, Robert H. Wojcicki, Katherine M. Berry, Andrew C. Reuther, Warren L. McArthur, Kendrick D. Case Rep Surg Case Report Chronic low back pain is one of the leading chief complaints affecting adults in the United States. As a result, this increases the percentage of patients that will eventually undergo surgical intervention to alleviate debilitating, chronic symptoms. A 37-year-old woman presented ten hours postoperatively after a lumbar laminectomy with an acute abdomen due to the extraordinarily rare complication of small bowel injury secondary to deep surgical penetration. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4510113/ /pubmed/26236534 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/378218 Text en Copyright © 2015 Robert H. Krieger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy
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