Background Abdominal stab injury is potential life-threatening injuries. Operation should be considered if wound violate the peritoneal layer and/or complicated with hemodynamic compromise, peritonitis, impalement, or evisceration. It is well known there are several diagnostic tools to evaluate the necessity of operation for a patient with abdominal stab injury. Despite numerous diagnostic tool...

Current Opinion in Critical Care 2010, 16:609–617 Purpose of review Patients with penetrating abdominal trauma are at risk of harboring life-threatening injuries. Many patients are in need of emergent operative intervention. However, there are clearly patients who can be safely managed nonoperatively. This review evaluates the literature to identify management guidelines for patients with penet...

To cite: Parizh D, Meytes V, Kopatsis A. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016217646 DESCRIPTION A man aged 38 years who underwent assault, presented with a stab wound to the anterior abdomen, LLQ (figure 1A). He was haemodynamically stable, no peritoneal signs on abdominal examination, FAST and local wound explorations were inconclusive. CT scan of...

Methods A 37 year old man had been stabbed with a knife to the epigastric area. Twenty minutes after the incident he was admitted to the University Hospital Centre Split. After aggressive resuscitation the patient was transferred to emergency operating theatre without any prior diagnostic procedures. Abdominal cavity was explored by laparotomy, and no evident damage to the abdominal organs was ...

A selective conservative treatment for penetrating anterior abdominal stab injuries is an increasingly recognized approach. We analyzed patients who followed-up and treated for penetrating anterior abdominal stab injuries. The anterior region was defined as the area between the arcus costa at the top and the mid-axillary lines at the laterals and the inguinal ligaments and symphysis pubis at th...

BACKGROUND The modern management of abdominal stab wounds remains controversial and subject to continued reappraisal. In the present study we reviewed patients with abdominal stab wounds to examine and validate a policy of selective non-operative management with serial physical abdominal examination in a busy urban trauma centre with a high incidence of penetrating trauma. METHODS Over a 12-m...

Maung Than Dyine, a Burman, age 31, was brought to hospital about mid-day ou 13th March 1911, with a stab wound of the abdomen and one in the chest. Both wounds were about 1 inch in length. The abdominal wound was below and to the left of the umbilicus, and the thoracic wound was in the ninth interspace 011 the left side?just in front of the posterior axillary line. The wounds had been inflicte...