Twenty-five years of renal trauma at a teaching hospital.
In a study of 535 patients with renal trauma admitted to the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals from 1962 to 1988, the authors found indications of a decrease in the rate of total nephrectomy in patients with blunt trauma, due in part to advances in diagnostic technology. In the cases of gunshot wounds, however, a persistently high rate of nephrectomy prevailed, reflecting, the authors believe, the proliferation of increasingly lethal weaponry.
Osborne
B
B
Collins
K
K
Klein
F
F
Smith
M J
MJ
Koontz
W W
WW
D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011859:Radiography; D014768:Virginia