Closed abdominal trauma in a child causing avulsion of the common bile duct and gastric stasis.

A case of closed abdominal trauma causing complete transection of the supraduodenal common bile duct and gastric stasis in an 8-year-old boy is described. Surgical management involved re-establishment of biliary-enteric continuity and later gastric drainage to overcome gastric stasis. It is postulated that this child had sustained a traumatic vagotomy resulting in failure of gastric emptying. The literature does not report this complication of blunt abdominal injury.