Abstract
Damage to the stomach due to blunt chest or abdominal trauma is rare. Gastric mucosal laceration from blunt chest trauma is reported. The patient, a 52-year-old man, injured his chest with a square piece of lumber, and was admitted for fracture of the 7th rib.
Four hours after the trauma, he vomited blood. A gastric mucosal laceration was diagnosed by endoscopy and emergency surgery was carried out. As gastric injury occurs rarely in blunt abdominal trauma, gastric examinations are apt to be forgotten. We must be more careful in cases of sudden onset of gastric injury. In the Japanese literature, this patient is the third case of gastric mucosal laceration and is the first one with the onset of hematemesis.
