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Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine
Volume 2011, Article ID 908514, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/908514
Case Report

Postoperative Bowel Perforation due to Heterotopic Ossification (Myositis Ossificans Traumatica): A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Victoria Valinluck Lao, Oliver B. Lao, and Edgar Figueredo

Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Received 12 May 2011; Accepted 3 June 2011

Academic Editors: D. C. Damin and S. Nomura

Copyright © 2011 Victoria Valinluck Lao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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