Gangrene of the right colon: A rare complication of trauma-related systemic hypotension

✍ Scribed by Mr. M. M. W. Parry; J. H. M. Nieuwoudt; D. Stein

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 135 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800740226

✦ Synopsis

Hypotensive ischaemia of the colon has been described associated with non-abdominal trauma', congestive cardiac failure* and pancreatitis3. This usually causes merely mucosal damage and only ten cases of gangrenous colon associated with systemic hypotension from non-abdominal trauma have been reported in the English literature.