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Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci
April 2013
Department of Respiratory Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Blunt thoracic trauma manifests in various ways, depending on the structures injured and type of injury. Commonly manifested as parenchymal contusion, at times, pseudacavitation may also been seen on the chest X ray. They are to be differentiated from other causes of pulmonary cavitations which are often done based on history.
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February 2008
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226 014, India.
This paper highlights the etiology, diagnosis, management and outcome in nine unusual cases of extrahepatic biliary obstruction in children. Extrahepatic biliary atresia and choledochal cyst constituted 127 out of 136 (93%) cases of all pediatric surgical biliary disorders managed between March 2000 and February 2007 at the reporting centre. However, nine children (aged 1.
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March 2004
Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care at Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Background: Biliary or pancreatic fistulae occur frequently after operative repair of liver or pancreatic injuries. The existing literature is based on a few retrospective series. The objective of this prospective study is to evaluate the clinical course and efficacy of non-operative treatment of biliary fistuli (BF) and pancreatic fistuli (PF) post-traumatic fistulae.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report 12 personal cases and a bibliographic study showing the authenticity of acute pancreatitis and pancreatic pseudo-cyst following trauma. The clinico-pathological aspects, the course and the treatment are not specific. The medico-legal aspect is the most important for the secondary or late manifestations raise the problem of the imputability to the accident.
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