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ecj-6609	Giambelluca, Dario; Picone, Dario; Pennisi, Natalino Carmelo; Luciani, Bruno; Lo Re, Giuseppe; Romeo, Placido	Traumatic gastric rupture following blunt abdominal trauma: a case report about an atypical modality of presentation	2017	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2135	113	48	Traumatic gastrointestinal lesions can be caused by three different injury mechanisms: i) crush injury, which occurs when an organ is compressed violently against the spine by directly applied pres- sure; ii) burst injury, which occurs when a sudden, violent compression of the abdom- inal wall is applied to a filled and extended hollow viscous, without any direct mechan- ical compression, resulting in an increase of intraluminal pressure; history of a recent meal has been often observed; iii) shear injury, caused by sudden deceleration of an organ at one point of fixation or its vascular pedicles.3 Gastric rupture following Heimlich maneuver, bag and mask ventilation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation has also been reported in literature.4 Actually, the most commonly used injury scoring grades for traumatic injuries of stomach is The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma injury scoring scale: according to this score, increasing morbidi- ty and mortality correlates with increasing severity of injury, which is assessed on the basis of depth of parenchymal damage and involvement of vessels.5 Partial rupture of the stomach wall may lead to full thickness rupture at a later stage. Traumatic gastric rupture is usu- ally associated with other visceral injuries, such as splenic lesions and fractures.	cache/ecj-6609.pdf	txt/ecj-6609.txt