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Table 3 Incisions with etiology of blunt and penetrating diaphragmatic injuries

From: Surgical management of traumatic diaphragmatic hernia: a single institutional experience of more than two decades

Causes n (%)

Thoracotomya

Laparotomy

Thoracoabdominal incision

MVC 27 (42.9)

23

3

1

Crush 17 (27.0)

14

2

1

SW 14 (22.2)

5

4

5

GSW 5 (7.9)

3

1

1

Total 63 (100)

43 (68.2)

11 (17.4)

9 (14.2)

  1. a: including 2 bilateral thoracotomies patients, each patient counted as one
  2. GSW Gunshot wound, MVC motor vehicle collision, SW stab wound, TDH traumatic diaphragmatic hernia
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