Therapeutic Serendipity Secondary to Abdominal Drain in Pancreatic Trauma

A case of blunt pancreatic trauma during a soccer match is presented in a young adult female. Following diagnosis, a laparotomy was performed and multiple abdominal drains placed. A controlled pancreatic fistula occurred, which was treated conservatively. Spontaneous drain migration into the duodenu...

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Autores principales: James, Jojo, Belgaumkar, Ajay, Patel, Ameet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6414299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899621
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3870
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description A case of blunt pancreatic trauma during a soccer match is presented in a young adult female. Following diagnosis, a laparotomy was performed and multiple abdominal drains placed. A controlled pancreatic fistula occurred, which was treated conservatively. Spontaneous drain migration into the duodenum created a therapeutic iatrogenic internal fistula.
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spelling pubmed-64142992019-03-21 Therapeutic Serendipity Secondary to Abdominal Drain in Pancreatic Trauma James, Jojo Belgaumkar, Ajay Patel, Ameet Cureus Radiology A case of blunt pancreatic trauma during a soccer match is presented in a young adult female. Following diagnosis, a laparotomy was performed and multiple abdominal drains placed. A controlled pancreatic fistula occurred, which was treated conservatively. Spontaneous drain migration into the duodenum created a therapeutic iatrogenic internal fistula. Cureus 2019-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6414299/ /pubmed/30899621 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3870 Text en Copyright © 2019, James et al. http://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_full Therapeutic Serendipity Secondary to Abdominal Drain in Pancreatic Trauma
title_fullStr Therapeutic Serendipity Secondary to Abdominal Drain in Pancreatic Trauma
title_full_unstemmed Therapeutic Serendipity Secondary to Abdominal Drain in Pancreatic Trauma
title_short Therapeutic Serendipity Secondary to Abdominal Drain in Pancreatic Trauma
title_sort therapeutic serendipity secondary to abdominal drain in pancreatic trauma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6414299/
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