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Intestinal and Colorectal Injury

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Cox (1984)1 indicated that the commonest cause of blunt abdominal injury was road traffic accident and it was often part of multiple injuries which required careful assessment and resuscitation. He indicated that liver and/or spleen were the most likely to suffer intraabdominal injury. Intestinal injury came next in order of frequency.

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  1. University Hospital of South Manchester, Nell Lane, West Didsbury, M20 8LR, Manchester, UK

    Philip F. Schofield MD, FRCS (Consultant Surgeon and Honorary Visiting Professor), N. Y. Haboubi MB, ChB, DPath, MRCPath (Consultant Head of Department of Histopathology) & D. F. Martin MB, ChB, MRCP, FRCR (Consultant Radiologist)

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Schofield, P.F., Haboubi, N.Y., Martin, D.F. (1993). Intestinal and Colorectal Injury. In: Highlights in Coloproctology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3456-5_4

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