Nominal free air in the left inguinal fossa due to perforation of the sigmoid colon in a case of blunt abdominal trauma: CT diagnosis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-58

  Yama, N ^a   Kimura, Y ^a   Tatsumi, H ^a   Kihara, C ^a   Kurimoto, Y ^a   Narimatsu, E ^a   Ura, H ^a   Koito, K ^a   Asai, Y ^a   Hirata, K ^a   Hreyama, M ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt abdominal trauma; Computed tomography; Free air; Intestinal perforation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; AGED; AIR; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; INTESTINE INJURY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; COLON, SIGMOID; EMPHYSEMA; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 30544446399     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-005-0349-x     Document Type: Article

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