HOLLOW VISCUS INJURY IN CHILDREN – A PRACTICAL REVIEW

摘要

Injuries in children have become a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The material used for this retrospective statistical study consists of a lot of 248 children, from whom 11 with hollow viscus lesions due to blunt abdominal trauma of different causes, hospitalized in the Clinic of Pediatric and Orthopedic Surgery of "St. Andrew" Emergency County Hospital of Constanta between 2011 and 2017. The methods of diagnosis and treatment were compared to those in the literature. We have studied over 150 articles from the literature using online search engines and PubMed, Med-Line, Clinical Key, Ovid databases. Hollow viscus injuries are inconstant lesions after blunt abdominal trauma in children. A solitary lesion of an abdominal organ has a better prognosis then multiple injuries. The morbidity and mortality increase with more organ lesions. A severe prognosis is associated with brain injuries and coma.