Stenosis of the small bowel after blunt abdominal trauma.

At the Catholic University of Louvain, between 1950 and 1990, two patients were treated for blunt abdominal trauma resulting in stenosis of the small bowel. One patient underwent partial resection of the small bowel 6 weeks after the trauma was sustained. The other was admitted for surgery 26 years after a blunt abdominal trauma. Surprisingly, the stenosis of the small bowel was accompanied by a ureteral obstruction due to fibrosis and terminal hydronephrosis.