Summary
Sheathed goring. A not obvious but devastating injury
Martínez-Ramos D, Villegas-Cánovas C, Rivadulla-Serrano I, Salvador-Sanchís JL
Affiliation of the authors
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY. HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CASTELLÓN.
DOI
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Martínez-Ramos D, Villegas-Cánovas C, Rivadulla-Serrano I, Salvador-Sanchís JL. Sheathed goring. A not obvious but devastating injury. Emergencias. 2007;19:347-9
Summary
Bull horn lesions are frequent in the Latin world due to the existence
of spectacles involving these animals. These wounds have
special features that make them different from all other lesions.
There is a special type of bull horn wound called sheathed goring. In this
type of lesion, the skin returns to its normal appearance after the goring,
but the injury is done. We report one patient with a sheathed goring and
bowel evisceration that was only covered by the skin. The patient required
emergency surgical intervention to repair the damaged bowel.