BACKGROUND The proportion of death and disability related to trauma is increasing in Third-World countries. Thoracic trauma is significantly involved, but few data are available on this issue in African countries with specific local conditions. METHODS The aim of the study is to analyse the diagnosis and management procedures in thoracic trauma in a typical African country. The records of 354...

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Road accidents are the main cause of serious injuries worldwide, accounting for over 10% trauma cases resulting in death or significant physical impairment. Thoracic injuries, on other hand, responsible a quarter all trauma-related deaths. In such cases, pneumothorax is most common thoracic injury, affecting 30 to 40% patients with trauma. This injury occurs twice as often closed traumas penetr...

The aim of the present study was to assess the prognostic significance of thoracic and abdominal trauma in severely injured patients. A retrospective analysis was performed based on data from the period from March 1 2006 to December 31 2007, taken from the Trauma Registry of the University Hospital "SantAndrea" in Rome. A total of 844 trauma patients were entered in a database created for this ...