BACKGROUND Abdominal trauma is a major public health problem for all nations and all socioeconomic strata. AIM This study was designed to determine the incidence and patterns of abdominal injuries in trauma patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We classified and identified the incidence and subtype of abdominal injuries and associated trauma, and identified variables related to morbidity and mort...

BACKGROUND Chest trauma is responsible for 50% of deaths due to trauma. This kind of death usually occurs immediately after the trauma has occurred. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the various aspects of chest trauma in patients admitted to two main trauma centers located in the Isfahan Province, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS During a six month period, a cross-sectional study ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the epidemiological aspects, behavior, morbidity and treatment outcomes for liver trauma. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of patients over 13 years of age admitted to a university hospital from 1990 to 2010, submitted to surgery or nonoperative management (NOM). RESULTS 748 patients were admitted with liver trauma. The most common mechanism of injury was pen...

Trauma is the leading cause of death in children older than 1 year of age and blunt trauma is the most common mechanism. The spleen and liver account for approximately 70% of all visceral injuries caused by blunt trauma, by far the most commonly injured intra-abdominal organs.1 Injury severity of spleen and liver injury is graded by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma injury scor...

H l i u a solated blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) represents about 5% of annual trauma mortality from blunt trauma. As part f multiple-site injury (polytrauma), BAT contributes anther 15% of trauma mortality.1 Exsanguination accounts for 0 to 90% of acute deaths from abdominal injury. More than 5% of such cases are amenable to surgery, and recent years ave seen safe extension of nonoperative, imag...

BACKGROUND A chronic iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm caused by blunt trauma is very rare. CASE PRESENTATION The patient had gunshot wound in the right thigh and blunt trauma 40 years earlier. An abdominal computed tomography revealed the presence of a right iliac arterial pseudoaneurysm, and we successfully treated the pseudoaneurysm by resection and in situ reconstruction with a bifurcated vas...

Small bowel perforation from blunt abdominal trauma is a common injury. Isolated perforation of the small bowel after blunt abdominal trauma is infrequent and the diagnosis can be elusive. A case of isolated perforation from blunt trauma is presented. Deterioration of the clinical picture raised suspicion of acute abdomen, perforated sore. If acute abdomen is the case even with a history of min...