title: [Our eight years' clinical experience in pancreatic injuries].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department General Surgery, Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kasim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cağlayan
authors.forename: Neşet
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Köksal
authors.forename: Ender
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Onur
authors.forename: Ediz
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altinli
authors.forename: Atilla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.forename: Aziz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sümer
authors.forename: M Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Uzun
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Günerhan
mesh_terms: 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