title: Emergency surgery due to go-kart injuries: report of two consecutive cases.
abstract: Injury due to go-karting accidents is a new kind of surgical emergency in Turkey and may show variations between patients. There are special details as relate to the design of the vehicles and patient characteristics. We report two seriously injured patients as a result of two different go-kart accidents. Severe intraabdominal hemorrhage due to liver laceration was seen in one patient and mesenteric intestinal avulsion in the other. Both patients were treated surgically and discharged uneventfully.
authors.affiliation: 4th Department of General Surgery, Dışkapı Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. borakerim@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Kerim Bora
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.forename: Melih
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akıncı
authors.forename: Oskay
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kulaçoğlu
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016512:Ankle Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004630:Emergencies; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D015541:Off-Road Motor Vehicles; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D014421:Turkey