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Sheathed goring. A not obvious but devastating injury

Martínez-Ramos D, Villegas-Cánovas C, Rivadulla-Serrano I, Salvador-Sanchís JL

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DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY. HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CASTELLÓN.

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Martínez-Ramos D, Villegas-Cánovas C, Rivadulla-Serrano I, Salvador-Sanchís JL. Sheathed goring. A not obvious but devastating injury. Emergencias. 2007;19:347-9

Summary

Bull horn lesions are frequent in the Latin world due to the existence

of spectacles involving these animals. These wounds have

special features that make them different from all other lesions.

There is a special type of bull horn wound called sheathed goring. In this

type of lesion, the skin returns to its normal appearance after the goring,

but the injury is done. We report one patient with a sheathed goring and

bowel evisceration that was only covered by the skin. The patient required

emergency surgical intervention to repair the damaged bowel.

 

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