Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Case Reports in Surgery
Abstract
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.
DOI
10.1155/2015/378218
Publication Date
7-8-2015
ISSN
2090-6919
Recommended Citation
Krieger RH, Wojcicki KM, Berry AC, Reuther WL, McArthur KD. Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy. Case Reports in Surgery. 2015; 2015. doi: 10.1155/2015/378218.
