Tompkins R G, McCabe C J, Burke J F, Keating M A, Wright C D
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
J Trauma. 1988 May;28(5):697-9. doi: 10.1097/00005373-198805000-00027.
A case is described in which transmural necrosis of the rectum occurred following a severe pelvic crush injury in an obese man. The necrosis presumably resulted from occlusion of both internal iliac arteries, disruption of the pelvic collateral circulation, and as a result of direct rectal contusion.