TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Emergency surgery due to go-kart injuries: report of two consecutive cases JO - Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi A1 - Yılmaz, Kerim Bora A1 - Akıncı, Melih A1 - Kaya, Oskay A1 - Kulaçoğlu, Hakan SP - 458 EP - 460 VL - 18 IS - 5 N2 - 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.

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