What is it about?
experience with tranditional war surgery dealing with colon inury how colonic gun inuries in traditional wars are treated differentlty
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Why is it important?
The dynamic of a traditional war and the casualties’ management is different from other inuries .The delay in transfer means more contamination from bowel injury; accordingly, colonic primary repair is not popular. One of the more commonlyadopted procedures is to simply exteriorize the affected large bowel as a colostomy. This procedure minimized the chances of aperitoneal leak, peritonitis and peritoneal collections
Perspectives
Reports of colonic gun injury-related surgeries during conflictsin the last three decades have shown a shift towards Primary repair possiblydue to the majority of reports not being based on traditional war
Dr imad Afram Jaboury
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This page is a summary of: Re: Gunshot wounds to the colon: predictive risk factors for the development of postoperative complications, an experience of 172 cases in 4 years, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, September 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ans.16083.
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