Octavio de Toledo J M, Gómez Lorenzo F, Domínguez J, Cimadevila J, Bernárdez J, Fernández P
Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Ntra. Sra. del Cristal, Orense.
Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 1993 Jan;83(1):38-41.
Case report of a 15-year-old girl presenting compression of the duodenum by the superior mesenteric artery, occurring after the application of a body plaster cast for correction of a idiopathic thoracic scoliosis, which required a gastrojejunostomy. The clinical and radiological pictures of this case fall into the rare entity called the "cast syndrome". The salient features of this syndrome are commented.
