Iatrogenic Bowel Injuries During Gynaecological Surgery: A Case Report and Literature Review

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The case report illustrates the clinical course of an iatrogenic sigmoid colon lesion in a 70-year-old patient with ovarian malignancy requiring surgery. The case further lays down the causes of the intestinal injury and also how the incidence of adhesions varies depending on the body mass index (BMI) of the patients.

 

The discussion cites the relevant literature on incidence, risk factors, pathophysiology, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, different approaches on the treatment and forensic consequences of the iatrogenic bowel injuries. This case report is suitable for the journal Surgical Case Reports (SCR).

 

There are several errors (already corrected in galley proof, except the highlighted one) which are as follows:

 

•       Multiple places in the manuscript have “computer tomography” which must be written as “computed tomography”.

•       In Case Presentation, 1^st paragraph, 3^rd sentence, “computer tomography abdominal scan (CT)” must be reframed as “computed tomography (CT) scan of abdomen” and in treatment, 2^nd sentence, “if the gynaecologist…. attending surgeon” is written incorrectly and can be reframed as “if the gynaecologist is experienced in bowel surgery, simple lacerations and small perforations, then the patient can be treated without attending a surgeon”.

•       There are certain spelling mistakes such as, in Case Presentation, 1^st paragraph, 4^th sentence, “salpingoophorectomy” must be correctly spelled as “salpingo-oophorectomy”, in 5^th paragraph, 3^rd sentence, “subhepatal space” must be “subhepatic space”, in Discussion, under Incidence, risk factors and pathophysiology, 5^th paragraph, 8^th sentence, “errouneously” must be written as “erroneously”, 8^th paragraph, 1^st sentence, “verres” must be “veress”.

•       In Discussion, 5^th paragraph, 8^th sentence, “intestinal serosis” does not make sense and need to be checked.

•       Hyphens are missing in certain places like, in Case Presentation, 1^st paragraph, 4^th sentence, “salpingoophorectomy” must be written as “salpingo-ophorectomy”, 5^th sentence, “high grade” must be “high-grade”.

•       There are missing of determiners in many places throughout the manuscript like, in Abstract, 3rd sentence, “clinical” must be “the clinical”, 6^th sentence, “prevention” must be “the prevention”, “experience” must be written as “the experience”.

Author Info

Veronika Hanzelová Miloš Mlynček

Corresponding Author

Miloš Mlynček
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty Hospital Nitra, Slovak Republic, Slovakia

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Jul 2020
Accepted: Mon 03, Aug 2020
Published: Tue 11, Aug 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Miloš Mlynček. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.08.12