Erschienen in:
01.12.2014 | Letter to the Editor
Moderate Intra-abdominal Free Fluid on Computed Tomogram in Patients with Blunt Trauma Abdomen: Time to Shun Non-operative Approach
verfasst von:
Debajyoti Mohanty, Ashwani Kumar Dalal, Pankaj Kumar Garg
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 12/2014
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Excerpt
We have read with interest the article by Mahmood et al. [
1] on the significance of detection of intra-abdominal free fluid sans solid organ injury on computed tomogram (CT) in hemodynamically stable patients with blunt trauma abdomen (BTA). Their retrospective analysis of 122 cases reaffirms the importance of thorough and repeated clinical examination in the decision-making process for laparotomy in patients with mesenteric and bowel injury. …