[Our eight years' clinical experience in pancreatic injuries].
BACKGROUND
We aimed to present the rates and causes of morbidity and mortality of the patients who were operated due to pancreatic trauma.


METHODS
We studied retrospectively 13 patients (13 males; mean age 35.3; range 20 to 60 years) with pancreatic trauma who were to our emergency unit between 1996-2004.


RESULTS
Ten patients had penetrating and three had blunt trauma. The average time between the admission to the emergency unit and the operation was 5.8 hours (1-48 hours). Mortality was 23% (three patients; two of them had major vascular injuries). The most prominent postoperative complication was pleural effusion which was seen in two patients (15%).


CONCLUSIONS
It was recorded that mortality and morbidity were related in great part to the associated organ injury.
Cağlayan
Kasim
K
2nd Department General Surgery, Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Köksal
Neşet
N
Onur
Ender
E
Altinli
Ediz
E
Celik
Atilla
A
Sümer
Aziz
A
Uzun
M Ali
MA
Günerhan
Yusuf
Y
D000328:Adult; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery