Citation

Lovric Z, Kuvezdic H, Prlić D, Wertheimer B, Candrlic K. J. R. Army Med. Corps 1997; 143(1): 26-30.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Osijek Clinical Hospital, Croatia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, UK Royal Army Medical Corps)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9089548

Abstract

During 18 months of the 1991/92 war against Croatia, 4,545 injured were treated at the Department of Surgery of Osijek Clinical Hospital. Some, 2,544 (55.9%) sustained shell fragment injuries and 807 (17.8%) bullet injuries. Shell fragments lead to a higher number of polytraumatized patients than did bullets (6.8% versus 5.3%). The postoperative complication rate for fragment injury (5.8%) was significantly higher than that for bullet injury (4.1%). Mortality rate did not differ significantly (3.9% versus 4.5% respectively).

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