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Spinal Cord Injury With Perforated Ileum: Casereport, Ching-Yang Lin, Min-Teh Cheng
Spinal Cord Injury With Perforated Ileum: Casereport, Ching-Yang Lin, Min-Teh Cheng
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
The patient with a spinal cord lesion may not have the early signs of peritonitis such as pain, local tenderness and local muscular rigidity, therefore it is extremely difficult to make an early diagnosis of an acute abdominal lesion. Important clues to the underlying lesion may be found in referred pain, local or systemic spasticity, blood pressure and temperature variation, sweating patterns, changing abdominal sign.This was a 37 years old female who had hospitalized following a car accident which resulted in c7 complete quadriplegiac7 Two years later, she was admitted because of severe nausea, vomitting, profused sweating, poor appetite, general …