BACKGROUND Blast injury is uncommon, and remains poorly understood by most clinicians outside regions of active warfare. Primary blast injury (PBI) results from the interaction of the blast wave with the body, and typically affects gas-containing organs such as the ear, lungs and gastrointestinal tract. This review investigates the mechanisms and injuries sustained to the abdomen following blas...

The prevalence of gallbladder injury in a traumatic event is rare, occurring only 1.9%-2.0% all abdominal traumas. Isolated injuries, without any damage to surrounding organs or tissues, are even less common. Presenting symptoms often nonspecific, and imaging modalities ultrasound (US) CT usually relied upon diagnose accurately. Identifying strategically treating cases injury, through reviewing...

Abdominal trauma, a very common occurrence, especially in country like India with an abundance of road traffic accidents. However, few such patients present pancreatic or duodenal injury. At times injury requires the complex and intricate procedure pancreatico-duodenectomy. Such highly trained surgeons as well extensive post operative monitoring. In scenario that these are available, this major...

Background Sonography has played an important role on detection of intraabdominal injuries with a sensitivity of 86%, a specificity of 98%, and an accuracy of 97% [1]. Negative predictive value achieved about 98% [1]. However, gallbladder injury is rare with incidence around 2.1% [2,3] in blunt abdominal trauma [2], and commonly associated with the solid organ injury or abdominal vascular injur...

CONTEXT Blunt abdominal trauma often presents a substantial diagnostic challenge. Well-informed clinical examination can identify patients who require further diagnostic evaluation for intra-abdominal injuries after blunt abdominal trauma. OBJECTIVE To systematically assess the precision and accuracy of symptoms, signs, laboratory tests, and bedside imaging studies to identify intra-abdominal...

Introduction: Abdominal injury constitutes a significant portion of all blunt and penetrating body injuries. As frequency of intra-abdominal injuries continues to increase worldwide, management in patients with suspected abdominal injury is getting more complex. CT is an important and fast technique which gives rapid information on the type of abdominal injury and helps in management of the pat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors that are predictive of delayed abdominal closure in patients injured during military conflict. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Seventy-one patients managed with an open abdomen were identified from records at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center from 2005 and 2006. Follow-up data were available from Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Records were reviewed through all ec...

BACKGROUND This study attempts to validate the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Organ Injury Scale (OIS) for spleen, liver, and kidney injuries using the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB). STUDY DESIGN All NTDB entries with Abbreviated Injury Scale codes for spleen, liver, and kidney were classified by OIS grade. Injuries were stratified either as an isolated intraabdomina...

Abdominal injuries are rare in sports, but even minor traumas may result potentially life-threatening injuries. The most frequent abdominal injury is wall contusion, following by blunt of the kidneys and spleen. cases soccer rarely reported literature. We present a case grade IV splenic laceration 10-year-old goalkeeper caused trauma sustained during gameplay. was successfully treated with nono...