Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report

INTRODUCTION: One of the most lethal mechanisms of injury is shotgun wound and particularly the abdominal one. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 45 years old male suffering abdominal shotgun trauma, who survived his injuries. CONCLUSION: The management of the abdominal shotgun wounds is mainl...

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Autores principales: Toutouzas, Konstantinos G, Larentzakis, Andreas, Drimousis, Panagiotis, Riga, Maria, Theodorou, Dimitrios, Katsaragakis, Stylianos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18625076
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-34
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author Toutouzas, Konstantinos G
Larentzakis, Andreas
Drimousis, Panagiotis
Riga, Maria
Theodorou, Dimitrios
Katsaragakis, Stylianos
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Drimousis, Panagiotis
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description INTRODUCTION: One of the most lethal mechanisms of injury is shotgun wound and particularly the abdominal one. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 45 years old male suffering abdominal shotgun trauma, who survived his injuries. CONCLUSION: The management of the abdominal shotgun wounds is mainly dependent on clinical examination and clinical judgment, while requires advanced surgical skills.
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spelling pubmed-24915972008-07-31 Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report Toutouzas, Konstantinos G Larentzakis, Andreas Drimousis, Panagiotis Riga, Maria Theodorou, Dimitrios Katsaragakis, Stylianos Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: One of the most lethal mechanisms of injury is shotgun wound and particularly the abdominal one. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 45 years old male suffering abdominal shotgun trauma, who survived his injuries. CONCLUSION: The management of the abdominal shotgun wounds is mainly dependent on clinical examination and clinical judgment, while requires advanced surgical skills. BioMed Central 2008-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2491597/ /pubmed/18625076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-34 Text en Copyright © 2008 Toutouzas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Toutouzas, Konstantinos G
Larentzakis, Andreas
Drimousis, Panagiotis
Riga, Maria
Theodorou, Dimitrios
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Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report
title Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report
title_full Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report
title_fullStr Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report
title_short Abdominal shotgun trauma: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18625076
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