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Current Trends in the Management of Blunt Solid Organ Injuries

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The management of patients with solid organ injuries has changed since the introduction of technically advanced imaging tools, such as ultrasonography and multiple scan computerized tomography, interventional radiological techniques and modern intensive care units. In spite of this development in the management of these patients, major solid organ traumas can still be challenging. There has been great improvement in the non-operative management (NOM) of intra-abdominal solid organ injury in recent decades. In most cases treatment of injuries has shifted from early surgical treatment to NOM.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Istanbul School of Medicine, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Service, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Hakan Yanar

  2. Department of Surgery, Istanbul School of Medicine, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Service, Istanbul University, 34390, Istanbul, Turkey

    Korhan Taviloglu MD, FACS

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Taviloglu, K., Yanar, H. Current Trends in the Management of Blunt Solid Organ Injuries. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 35, 90–94 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-009-9051-y

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