A PROSPECTIVE AUTOPSY STUDY OF CHEST INJURIES BY BLUNT TRAUMA
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Trauma is one of the leading preventable causes of death in developing countries, and is a major health and social problem. Trauma affects generally the young people, and accounts for loss of more years of life, than lost due to cancer and heart diseases put together. In urban life 75% of thoracic trauma follows blunt injury. Greatest difficulty in their management lies in the timely diagnosis. This is largely due to masking of thoracic trauma by associated injuries like head injury, abdominal trauma and bony injury. In Bangalore, vehicular accidents are one of the most common contributory factors to the chest trauma because of multiplicity of vehicles
Authors and Affiliations
Fairoz Khan, Shobhana S. S, Sudhamshu Raj Sharma
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