Saint-Petersburg I.I. Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine

Abstract

Rectal wound occurs in 1 to 5 % of cases among wounds of the abdominal organs. In patient B., 32 years old, 3 days after a stab wound to the left gluteal region and after ligation of the internal iliac artery with an extraperitoneal approach to stop ongoing bleeding, rectoromanoscopy and chromovulneroscopy revealed damage to the rectal wall measuring 1.2×0.7 cm at a height of 15 cm from the anus. The defect in the rectal wall was closed using endoscopic clips (6 pcs.). The wound canal of the left gluteal region was overdrained. At the control examination of the rectum on the 20th day after suturing the defect with endoscopic clips, the intestinal wall was sealed. The wound in the gluteal region healed by secondary intention. The patient was discharged from the hospital after 3 weeks. This method of endoscopic clipping of a rectal wound with external drainage of the wound canal is a modern minimally invasive method of treatment and can be used as an alternative to sigmoidostomy. The obvious advantages of this method of treatment are: improving the patient’s quality of life, the absence of the need for additional surgical interventions in order to restore the continuity of the colon.

Keywords

• rectal wound
• endoscopic clipping of a rectal wound
• alternative method of sigmoidostomy
• minimally invasive method of treating rectal wound
• endoscopic suturing of the rectal wall defect