Incidence and management of penetrating renal trauma in patients with multiorgan injury: extended experience at an inner city trauma center.

Purpose: Patients with penetrating trauma often have multiorgan involvement that may complicate the management of any single organ system. Here we review the incidence of associated injuries in patients with penetrating renal trauma and our extended experience treating these patients at a busy inner city trauma center.

Materials And Methods: All trauma cases presenting to Temple University Trauma Center during a 6-year period were identified through our institutional databases and were reviewed (5,276).