Zeki MEMİŞ, Necmi KURT, Yıldırım GÜLHAN, Tayfun YÜCEL, Ayhan ÇEVİK, Mustafa GÜLMEN.
Abstract
in between 1990-1993, 46 vascular injuries were admitted to the Kartal Training and Research Hospital Surgical Clinics. The causes of injuries were releated to penetrating deviced 34 (73.9 %), gun shots 10 (21.7 %) and blunt trav ma 1 (2.2 %). Total laceration, partial laceration and pseudoaneurysm were 30 (65.2 %), 15 (32.6 %), and 1 (2.2 %) re spectively. The localisation of injuries were 21 (45.7 %) in the upper limbs, 19 (41.3 %) in the lower limbs, and 6 (13 %) in abdomen. 11 (20.7 %) of patients underwent end to end anastomosis; 12 (22.6 %) reparation weith venous saphe nous graft; 16 (30.2 %) vascular ligation; 13 (24.7 %) lateral reparation, and 1 (1.8 %) reparation with synthetic graft. Our mortality was 4 cases (8.6 %) Our success rate was 97.5 % in salvaging the limbs. We conclude that vascular-in juries deserves early recogniation and treatment for salvaging limbs in every general surgical clinic.
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