Degloving bowel injury
Last revised by Tom Foster on 27 Jul 2022
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Knipe H, Foster T, Degloving bowel injury. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 18 Apr 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-49678
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Degloving bowel injuries are a rare type of bowel and mesenteric injury only being described a handful of times in the literature 1-5. In these injuries the bowel is stripped of its mesentery and muscle, leaving a "mucosal tube" 2,3. Perforation may or may not be present.
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- 1. Uri I & Benamore R. Degloving Bowel Injury Following Blunt Abdominal Trauma: A Rare CT Finding: Figure 1. Emerg Med J. 2012;29(9):719. doi:10.1136/emermed-2012-201232 - Pubmed
- 2. Ho Y & Pritchett C. Blunt Abdominal Trauma Causing a 'Degloving Injury' to the Colon. Injury. 1990;21(2):119-20. doi:10.1016/0020-1383(90)90071-2 - Pubmed
- 3. Armstrong T, Blaquiere R, Varshney S, Primrose J. Traumatic `degloving' of the Colon in Blunt Abdominal Injury. Colorect Dis. 2002;4(2):141-3. doi:10.1046/j.1463-1318.2002.00321.x - Pubmed
- 4. Molina-Navarro C & Hosking S. Traumatic Diverticulosis and Seromuscular Rupture of the Sigmoid Colon as a Result of Non-Penetrating Abdominal Trauma. Injury. 2001;32(6):510-2. doi:10.1016/s0020-1383(01)00011-0
- 5. Terazumi K, Yanagawa Y, Takasu A, Sakamoto T. A Case of Degloving Injury of the Colon. Am J Emerg Med. 2012;30(1):250.e5-6. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2010.09.034 - Pubmed
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