ABSTRACT
We report a penetrating abdominal injury due to a piece of glass, a very unusual domestic accident, in a 2-year-old boy who was admitted to the emergency department with an evisceration through the umbilicus. His mother reported that she was asleep when the boy came to her room, and did not know how it had happened. We primarily suspected child abuse, but the presence of a piece of glass in the boy's heel led us to think of a domestic accident. He had poured himself a glass of water, and then fell on the glass. We could not find a similar case in the literature on domestic accidents.
Subject(s)
Abdominal Injuries/etiology , Accidents, Home , Foreign Bodies/etiology , Glass , Jejunum/injuries , Wounds, Penetrating/etiology , Abdominal Injuries/diagnostic imaging , Abdominal Injuries/surgery , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Antibiotic Prophylaxis , Child, Preschool , Drug Therapy, Combination/therapeutic use , Follow-Up Studies , Foreign Bodies/diagnostic imaging , Foreign Bodies/surgery , Heel/injuries , Humans , Male , Radiography , Wound Infection/prevention & control , Wounds, Penetrating/diagnostic imaging , Wounds, Penetrating/surgeryABSTRACT
Between 1972 and 1988, twenty-four children with abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) were treated. Five children between 6 and 12 years old had intestinal obstruction due to mesenteric-intestinal mass of the NHL class. We report clinical and morphological features, emphasizing the importance of radical surgery from the therapeutic and prognostic points of view these resectable abdominal forms.
