Open AccessFrequency, causes and pattern of abdominal trauma: A 4-year descriptive analysis
Author(s) -
Ayman El-Menyar,
Suresh Arumugam,
Ammar AlHassani,
Husham Abdelrahman,
Ashok Parchani,
Rubén Peralta,
Ahmad Zarour,
Hassan AlThani
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.4103/0974-2700.166590
Subject(s) - medicine , trauma center , abdominal trauma , injury severity score , incidence (geometry) , surgery , abbreviated injury scale , sepsis , intensive care unit , pneumonia , mortality rate , poison control , retrospective cohort study , injury prevention , emergency medicine , blunt , optics , physics
The incidence of abdominal trauma is still underreported from the Arab Middle-East. We aimed to evaluate the incidence, causes, clinical presentation, and outcome of the abdominal trauma patients in a newly established trauma center.
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