Clinical Analysis of Traumtic Diaphragmatic Injuries
Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
;
: 576-583, 1997.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-85823
ABSTRACT
Authors reviewed the records of sixteen patients with traumatic diaphragmatic injuries from May 1992 through December 1996. Thirteen patients were male and three were female(MF=4.31). The age distribution ranged from 2 to 46 years with the mean age of 30.2 years. The sixteen patients included thirteen who had blunt trauma and three with penetrating trauma. Of those thirteen blunt trauma, twelve patients(92.3%) were left sided and one(7.7%) involved the right diaphragm. Three patients with penetrating trauma had left sided diaphragmatic injuries. The diagnosis was made preoperatively in thirteen patients(81.3%) and during surgery in three patients(18.8%). Thoracotomy was performed in eleven patients and thoracoabdominal incision in five. There was one death and the mortality rate was 6.3%.
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Main subject:
Diaphragm
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Thoracotomy
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Mortality
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Age Distribution
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Diagnosis
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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