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Abstract
We report the case of a 6-year-old boy presenting with small bowel evisceration following a fall onto a bicycle handle-bar. His case is presented, a review of the literature performed and interesting photos pre and post-op are presented.
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On arrival at the Department of Accident and Emergency, he was conscious and his vital signs were stable
We report the case of a 6-year-old boy presenting with small bowel evisceration following a fall onto a bicycle handle-bar
Handlebar injuries to the abdomen from bicycle accidents are commonly seen in emergency departments but uncommonly result in rupture of the abdominal wall, as most sole bicycle accidents occur at low speed
Summary
Abstract We report the case of a 6-year-old boy presenting with small bowel evisceration following a fall onto a bicycle handle-bar. Case presentation A 6-year-old Caucasian boy was brought to the Emergency Department after falling onto his bicycle handlebar at the local skate park, suffering an evisceration injury. The obvious injury was the protrusion of the small bowels and some omentum on the abdominal wall, obscuring the wound beneath (Figure 1). Cases Journal 2009, 2:6315 http://casesjournal.com/casesjournal/article/view/6315 slide injury [6].
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