Hollow viscus injury in children: Starship Hospital experience

Abbas, Saleh; Upadhyay, Vipul

dc.contributor.author	Abbas, Saleh	en
dc.contributor.author	Upadhyay, Vipul	en
dc.date.accessioned	2008-09-25T03:05:35Z	en
dc.date.available	2008-09-25T03:05:35Z	en
dc.date.issued	2007	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2(1), 14. 2007	en
dc.identifier.issn	1749-7922	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/3051	en
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dc.description.abstract	Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, serves a population of 1.2 million people and is a tertiary institution for pediatric trauma. This study is designed to review all cases of abdominal injury (blunt and penetrating) that resulted in injury of a hollow abdominal viscus including the stomach, duodenum, small intestine, large intestine and urinary bladder. The mechanism of injury; diagnosis and outcome were studied. This was done by retrospective chart review of patients admitted from January 1995 to December 2001. Thirty two injuries were found in 29 children. The age ranged from 7 months to 15 years with boys represented more commonly. Small bowel was the most frequently injured hollow viscus. Computerized Tomography (CT scan) is an extremely useful tool for the diagnosis of HVI.	en
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dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Journal of Emergency Surgery	en
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dc.source.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-2-14	en
dc.title	Hollow viscus injury in children: Starship Hospital experience	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.subject.marsden	Fields of Research::320000 Medical and Health Sciences	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1186/1749-7922-2-14	en
pubs.issue	1	en
pubs.begin-page	4	en
pubs.volume	2	en
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dc.rights.holder	Copyright: Abbas and Upadhyay; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.	en
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