[Vascular compression of the duodenum related to a plaster cast (the cast syndrome)].

Abstract

Case report of a 15-year-old girl presenting compression of the duodenum by the superior mesenteric artery, occurring after the application of a body plaster cast for correction of a idiopathic thoracic scoliosis, which required a gastrojejunostomy. The clinical and radiological pictures of this case fall into the rare entity called the "cast syndrome". The salient features of this syndrome are commented.

• Authors: J M Octavio de Toledo, F Gómez Lorenzo, J Domínguez, J Cimadevila, J Bernárdez, P Fernández
• Journal: Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva (Rev Esp Enferm Dig) Vol. 83 Issue 1 Pg. 38-41 (Jan 1993) ISSN: 1130-0108 [Print] Spain
• Vernacular Title: Compresión vascular del duodeno relacionada con un corsé de yeso (cast syndrome).
• PMID: 8452701 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Casts, Surgical (adverse effects)
• Duodenostomy
• Female
• Humans
• Jejunostomy
• Lordosis (complications, therapy)
• Lumbar Vertebrae
• Radiography
• Scoliosis (complications, therapy)
• Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (diagnostic imaging, etiology, surgery)
• Thoracic Vertebrae