this prospective study, conducted in 8 cities of iran from 1999 to 2000. out of total 16,573 trauma patients, 106 (0.63%) included in this study had renal injury. this study aimed at investigation of incidence, etiology and management of renal trauma patients in iran. they were 87 (82.1%) male and 19 (17.9%) female patients. renal trauma mechanism was mainly blunt injury (93.4%). road traffic c...

PURPOSE Abdominal trauma itself accounts for approximately 3% of all trauma cases. Among cases of multiple organ trauma, abdominal trauma accounts for 8-10% of cases. The frequency of genitourinary tract trauma is 10%. The renal trauma is 1-5% of all trauma cases. The aim of this study was to determine treatment's strategy according to analysis of renal trauma severity. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Renal trauma in the pediatric population is predominately due to blunt mechanism of injury. Our purpose was to determine the associated injuries, features, incidence, management, and outcomes of kidney injuries resulting from blunt trauma in the pediatric population in a single level I trauma center. METHODS This was a retrospective chart and trauma registry review of all pediatric...

INTRODUCTION Nonoperative and minimally invasive management techniques for both blunt and penetrating renal trauma have become standard of care over the past decades. We sought to examine the modern epidemiology of renal trauma over the past decade. METHODS A systematic review of PubMed from the past decade was conducted to examine adult and pediatric renal trauma. A total of 605 articles wer...

OBJECTIVES To show the wide spectrum of computed tomography (CT) findings in blunt renal trauma and to correlate them with consequent therapeutic implications. METHODS This article is the result of a literature review and our personal experience in a level II trauma centre. Here we describe, discuss and illustrate the possible CT findings in blunt renal trauma, and we correlate them with the ...

Nonoperative treatment of blunt renal trauma with urinary extravasation in a child Serpil Sancar, Cagatay Aydiner, Mete Kaya Abstract The goal of renal trauma management is preservation of functional renal parenchyma with minimal morbidity. In children with grade IV renal injury, the role and timing of surgical or endourologic intervention is less established and remains controversial. We repor...