@article{ref1,
title="Impalement injury by glass shard with delayed colonic perforation",
journal="Pan African medical journal",
year="2015",
author="Rosat, Adriá and Sánchez, Juan Manuel and Chocarro, Cristina and Barrera, Manuel",
volume="21",
number="",
pages="330-330",
abstract="A 66-year-old man experienced a traumatic injury after a fall on top of a glass tea table, which caused some superficial lacerations all around the body. He was examined in the emergency room by a physician. The physician could not feel any foreign body upon wound exploration and sutured the laceration. Fourteen months after the injury, he developed progressive abdominal pain. On emergency room and abdominal x-ray showed a foreign body, which a CT scan revealed as an intraabdominal glass shard. The glass presumably impaled his abdominal wall as a result of his previous traumatic injury. The patient underwent laparotomy, which revealed a large glass (16x1cm) perforating the transverse colon. It was extracted and the perforation closed with a lineal stapler. There was no need of bowel resection and the patient was discharged home nine days after the intervention.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1937-8688",
doi="10.11604/pamj.2015.21.330.7676",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.21.330.7676"
}