Citation

Philipoff AC, Rowcroft A, Weber DG. BMJ Case Rep. 2015; 2015(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Trauma Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Department of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bcr-2014-208024

PMID

26323973

Abstract

Serious intra-abdominal injuries are very uncommon in cricket; traumatic cricket injuries are traditionally musculoskeletal, soft tissue or maxillofacial in origin. The cause of such cricket injuries can be broadly divided into collision type injuries (a result of direct contact with the ball or bat, another player, the ground or boundary) or overuse injuries (due to running, throwing, batting, bowling, repetitive movements and overexertion). This case report describes a rare cause of small bowel perforation and suspected genitofemoral nerve injury secondary to the direct impact of a cricket ball, and includes a brief review of blunt abdominal injuries resulting in isolated small bowel perforations.

Language: en