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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Published inCase reports in surgery Vol. 2015; no. 2015; pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Reuther, Warren L., Berry, Andrew C., Wojcicki, Katherine M., Krieger, Robert H., McArthur, Kendrick D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2015
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Abdomen
Back pain
Case Report
Colleges & universities
Hospitals
Laparoscopy
Mortality
Patients
Surgery
Tomography
United States > US
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Summary: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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Academic Editor: Yoshiharu Kawaguchi
ISSN:2090-6900
2090-6919
DOI:10.1155/2015/378218