Following an automobile accident, a female patient complains of colicky abdominal pain. She also has been vomiting and her abdomen is distended. Which of the following is the most likely cause of her pain and signs?
A) Her small bowel has been torn.
B) The accident freed a small clot from her aorta that subsequently entered and occluded the vasa recta supplying her ileum.
C) The sympathetic nerve supply to her small bowel has been injured.
D) Her parietal peritoneum has been lacerated.
E) The accident triggered appendicitis.
Ans: B
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