• Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Sep 2012

    Case Reports

    Emergency surgery due to go-kart injuries: report of two consecutive cases.

    • Kerim Bora Yılmaz, Melih Akıncı, Oskay Kaya, and Hakan Kulaçoğlu.
    • 4th Department of General Surgery, Dışkapı Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. borakerim@yahoo.com
    • Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2012 Sep 1;18(5):458-60.

    AbstractInjury 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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