Case reports in surgery
Cure8 research brief
Why This Matters
People with prior abdominal trauma or unexplained colonic strictures may face a diagnostic dilemma because chronic posttraumatic changes can mimic inflammatory bowel disease on biopsy. Recognizing trauma as a possible cause can affect management and avoid misdiagnosis.
Who Should Pay Attention
Adult patients with prior abdominal trauma, surgeons and gastroenterologists treating colonic strictures or large-bowel obstruction, and clinicians evaluating unusual presentations of suspected IBD.
Study Snapshot
Story typeResearch paper
Evidence typeResearch paper
Source depthJournal abstract
What To Know
A young woman developed a delayed transverse colon stricture three years after blunt abdominal trauma that caused large-bowel obstruction. Colonoscopy showed a nontraversable stenosis; she had robotic-assisted transverse colon resection with primary colo-colonic anastomosis.
Histology showed chronic transmural inflammation and crypt distortion raising concern for inflammatory bowel disease, but no granulomas or dysplasia; she remained symptom-free at ~2-year follow-up without other IBD features.
The report's main point is the diagnostic dilemma: posttraumatic strictures can produce chronic inflammatory histology that mimics IBD, yet clinical course and absence of other IBD signs favored a traumatic etiology in this case.
If clinicians encounter delayed colonic strictures after abdominal trauma, consider both posttraumatic stricture and IBD in differential diagnosis; surgical resection may both treat obstruction and provide diagnostic tissue.
This summary is based on the article abstract from the journal Case Reports in Surgery available on PubMed; Cure8 did not review additional data beyond the extracted text provided here.
Keep In Mind
This is a single-case report describing one patient's course and pathology; findings do not establish that trauma commonly causes similar strictures or that histology reliably distinguishes causes. The summary is grounded in the article abstract and not a full systematic review.
Source Details
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Research paper
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PublicationCase reports in surgery
AuthorsRita Aghjayan, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Rana Elsayed +3 more
InstitutionDepartment of Surgery Saint Peter's University Hospital New Brunswick New Jersey USA saintpetershcs.com.
Study typeJournal article
Indexed viaPubMed
Source typeResearch paper
PublishedOct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM
Content availableJournal abstract
Conflict statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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