@article{ref1,
title="Chest trauma in children",
journal="European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery",
year="2002",
author="Ceran, Sami and Sunam, Güven Sadi and Aribas, Olgun Kadir and Gormus, Niyazi and Solak, Hasan",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="57-59",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Chest trauma in childhood is uncommon in clinical practice. The management and treatment principles of children with thoracic trauma were discussed with the data reported in the literature. METHODS: Of the chest injury diagnosed in 1653 patients, 225 were children in the last 17-year period. There were 199 boys (88.44%) and 26 girls (11.55%). The most common causes were blunt injuries in 135 cases (60%), stab wounds in 67 cases (29.77%) and gunshot wounds in 22 cases (9.77%). RESULTS: Out of 225, 217 patients were treated conservatively and eight patients were treated surgically. There was no mortality and morbidity. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of chest trauma in children due to blunt injuries is high in Turkey. Extremity injury is thought to be the most commonly associated extra-thoracic injury. However, thoracic trauma in children can be managed conservatively in most of the cases.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1010-7940",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}