Mishra’s Sign of Blunt Traumatic Pancreatic Injury’: An Intra-Operative Telltale Sign Indicating Potential Blunt Traumatic Pancreatic Injury
Journal Title: Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Dear Editor Missed traumatic pancreatic injuries especially injury to the main pancreatic duct (MPD) is a small but significant cause for morbidity and mortality [1, 2]. During exploratory laparotomy, traumatic pancreatic injuries may pose a major challenge to the surgeon both in terms of diagnosis and management and therefore may easily be missed due to several reasons like [2-7]:
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Biplab Mishra
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