Open AccessAbdominal injury patterns in patients with seatbelt signs requiring laparotomy
Author(s) -
Seema Biswas,
Mohamed Adileh,
Gidon Almogy,
Miklosh Bala
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.142764
Subject(s) - laparotomy , medicine , medical emergency , general surgery , emergency medicine , surgery
We analyzed our series of patients with seatbelt signs (bruising) that underwent laparotomy in order to correlate injury pattern with clinical course and outcome.