War Surgery

Skeletal Sarcoma on the Site of Retained War Bullet Fragments and a Literature Review on Long-Term Complications of Retained War Shells

  Long-term complications of retained war fragments in the body are not completely known. Also, bullet migration and slow resorption of metals and distortion in some imaging modalities are frequent and well recognized complications but, now we are concerned about neoplastic changes near the retained war fragments. We reviewed the literature on complication of retained war fragments and report o...

RENAL INJURIES IN MASHHAD UNIVERSITY DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. A COMPARISON WITH WORLD WARS I AND II, AND VIETNAM

Missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. Of 4500 patients admitted to the Ghaem Medical Center in the first two years of the Iran-Iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. The mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with World War I, 60% and World...

War Wounds of the Extremities. War Surgery Supplement No. 2 (British Journal of Surgery)

Surgery of the Modern Warfare

Our knowledge on traumatic surgery at the beginning ?f the last war was very different from our knowledge on this subject at the end of that war; still further changes had occurred by the beginning of the present war; to-day we know much more than we did in September 1939; and one may reasonably assume that by the end of this war considerable further changes ?will have taken place. Therefore, t...

Skeletal sarcoma on the site of retained war bullet fragments and a literature review on long-term complications of retained war shells.

Long-term complications of retained war fragments in the body are not completely known. Also, bullet migration and slow resorption of metals and distortion in some imaging modalities are frequent and well recognized complications but, now we are concerned about neoplastic changes near the retained war fragments. We reviewed the literature on complication of retained war fragments and report our...

The history of colonic surgery in war.

The history of laparotomy for penetrating abdominal wounds is reviewed from its origins in the sixteenth century to the large series from World War II. It is shown that the mass casualties of World War I allowed the management of organ specific injuries to be studied. This review concentrates upon one of the most contentious topics in war surgery-the management of colonic wounds, and suggests t...