@Article{, title={9- PREVALENCE OF INTERNAL ABDOMINAL ORGANS� INJURIES IN PATIENTS OPERATED UPON AFTER BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA.}, author={Kamal Ahmad Saeed}, journal={Basrah Journal of Surgery مجلة البصرة الجراحية}, volume={14}, number={1}, pages={42-47}, year={2008}, abstract={Blunt abdominal trauma may result in multiple severe injuries which make the abdomen difficultto assess and easy to overlook. Unrecognized intra-abdominal injury is a significant cause ofpreventable death in blunt trauma. This study aimed to find the frequency and features oflapratomy findings for different internal abdominal organs� injuries in patients subjected to bluntabdominal injury. A total of 450 patients subjected to blunt abdominal trauma were admitted tothe emergency surgical department of Sulaimania Surgical Teaching Hospital following, 140 ofthem were decided to undergo exploratory laparotomy depending on their clinical and imagingfindings that suggesting a visceral injury. Thirty one percent of the patients who subjected toblunt abdominal trauma need exploratory laparotomy, 80.7% of them were male, and 67.9%were young. The predominant causative factor of blunt abdominal trauma was the motor vehicleaccidents. Spleen and liver were the frequent injured solid organs. Almost all of the patients hadpositive laparotomy results. Traumatic head and neck injuries were the most commonassociated non abdominal injuries. Morality rate was only 5% while complication rate was only7%. It is concluded that males at young active productive age are the main persons suffer fromblunt abdominal trauma. This has an important economic impact on the productivity of thecommunity. Spleen injury being the most commonly intra abdominal solid injured organ followedby liver, other visceral structures are uncommonly involved.j1

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