A 9-month-old adult female Sprague-Dawley rat from a colony of spinally transected rats presented 10 days after spinal cord transection surgery with a 2-day history of abdominal distention.

In a woman do not forget gynecologic causes of acute abdomen (see Chapter on Abdominal pain in women (Page DFH-OBG-1 & 2). Rectus sheath hematoma.