Delayed Chylothorax Following Blunt Chest Trauma Treated with Repeated Lymphangiography: A Case Presentation [PDF]
Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2023 Chylothorax is mostly iatrogenic, with blunt chest trauma being a rare cause. Treatment depends on the volume of drainage. Specifically, conservative treatment, such as total parenteral nutrition and pleural drainage, is performed in cases of low daily ...
Gayoung Kim +3 more
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Dual repair of traumatic flank hernia using laparoscopic and open approaches: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2022 Traumatic flank hernia (TFH) is rare and prone to recurrence, which makes appropriate treatment challenging. No current guidelines define the optimal timing and method of repair.
Yoonjung Heo, Dong Hun Kim
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Nonoperative management of colon and mesocolon injuries caused by blunt trauma: three case reports [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2022 The therapeutic approach for colon injury has changed continuously with the evolution of management strategies for trauma patients. In general, immediate laparotomy can be considered in hemodynamically unstable patients with positive findings on extended
Naa Lee +5 more
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Epidemiologic features of pediatric genital injury in emergency departments in Korea [PDF]
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2021 Purpose Genital injury is a common pediatric injury. Given the lack of nationwide data, the authors aimed to show age group-related epidemiologic features of genital injury in Korea.
Jae Yun Jung +11 more
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Coluna/Columna, 2021 Objective: Cervical trauma is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, affecting 2% of patients admitted to emergency units. Therefore, this study aims to compare the use of two clinical cervical spine evaluation algorithms, the Canadian C-Spine ...
Felipe Leonardo +3 more
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Comparison of Penetrating and Blunt Traumatic Diaphragmatic Injuries [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2019 Purpose Traumatic diaphragmatic injury (TDI) is no longer considered to be a rare condition in Korea. This study investigated differences in the prevalence of accompanying injuries and the prognosis in patients with traumatic diaphragmatic damage ...
Sang Su Lee +5 more
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Exploring quality of life, physical and psychosocial morbidity for patients with non-infected wounds: a pilot study [PDF]
, 2014 This article reports on the results of a pilot study exploring health-related quality of life and the experience of being resilient in patients who develop acute, non-infected surgical wounds.
Stephenson, John +3 more
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Understanding effective management of postoperative wounds [PDF]
, 2013 Acute surgical wounds generally heal with no problems. However, some wounds blister around the periwound area and surgical site infection postoperatively, partly due to inappropriate choice of wound dressing.
Ousey, Karen, Roberts, Peter
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Blunt traumatic iliac vein injury without pelvic fracture – A case report
Trauma Case Reports, 2021 A 48-year-old man fell asleep while driving a 4-t truck, hit an 11-t truck from behind, and was injured. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed retroperitoneal hematoma and extravasation of contrast medium in the left common iliac vein.
Hiroyuki Takahashi +7 more
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Therapeutic Ultrasound: Its Effects on the Integrity of a Nonpenetrating Wound [PDF]
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 1984 This study investigated the effect of ultrasound applied to traumatized muscle tissue of an adult male rat. Sixty-six rats were traumatized, treated, and sacrificed. The rats were assigned to one of 11 groups, to which experimental and control (two mock) ultrasound treatments were given at 3- and 7-minute time periods at 0.5 and 1.5 watts per square ...
S A, Stratton, R, Heckmann, R S, Francis
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