[Penetrating wounds of the chest].
The authors report on 116 chest wound cases. The initial death rate is very high--47.41%. A knife wound is the most common cause (83.64%). Among casualties brought in alive, pure thorax wounds predominated (67.21%) followed by thoraco-abdominal wounds (26.23%) and cervico-thorax wounds (6.56%). Post-mortems attribute death to the seriousness of visceral lesions with the heart wounded in over 41.81% of the cases. The seriousness of chest wounds is stressed, as is the need for full and rapid therapy.
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Clinique chirurgicale, Hôpital Le Dantec.
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D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D019838:Neck Injuries; D012675:Senegal / Q000453:epidemiology; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality
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