Small Bowel Perforation as a Postoperative Complication from a Laminectomy.

Chronic low back pain is one of the leading chief complaints affecting adults in the United States. As a result, this increases the percentage of patients that will eventually undergo surgical intervention to alleviate debilitating, chronic symptoms. A 37-year-old woman presented ten hours postoperatively after a lumbar laminectomy with an acute abdomen due to the extraordinarily rare complication of small bowel injury secondary to deep surgical penetration.

Embedded pork bone causing esophageal perforation and an esophagus-innominate artery fistula.

Chronically embedded foreign bodies can lead to perforations, mediastinitis, and abscess, amongst a host of other complications. A 20-year-old mentally challenged female presented with "something stuck in her throat," severe dysphagia, and recurrent vomiting. Initial imaging was unremarkable; however, subsequent imaging and esophagogastroduodenoscopy two weeks later revealed an embedded pork bone.

Peripheral blood eosinophilia associated with gastrointestinal administration of iodinated contrast media.

Objective: This study was designed to assess whether gastrointestinal administration of iodinated contrast media results in peripheral blood eosinophilia.

Materials And Methods: We studied 110 patients in a retrospective review. Diatrizoate meglumine and diatrizoate sodium for abdominal CT were administered to 98 of these patients; 22 of the 98 had also been given the same contrast medium administered by enema.