Self-Inflicted Abdominal Stab Wounds Have a Higher Rate of Non-therapeutic Laparotomy/Laparoscopy and a Lower Risk of Injury

Autor: Reuven Rabinovici, Nikolay Bugaev, Sandra S. Arabian, Kevin McKay, Janis L. Breeze
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: World Journal of Surgery. 41:2681-2688
ISSN: 1432-2323
0364-2313
Popis: The profile and management of self-inflicted abdominal stab wounds (SI-ASW) patients is still obscure. The National Trauma Data Bank (2012) was queried for adults with abdominal stab wounds (n = 9544). Patients with SI-ASW (n = 1724) and non-SI-ASW (n = 7820) were compared. Predictors for non-therapeutic laparotomy/laparoscopy (non-TL) in SI-ASW patients were identified. SI-ASW patients were older, had more females and behavioral disorders, similar physiology, but a lower Injury Severity Score. They had more laparotomies overall (54 versus 48%, p
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