Citation

Yılmaz KB, Akıncı M, Kaya O, Kulaçoğlu H. Ulus. Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg. 2012; 18(5): 458-460.

Affiliation

4th Department of General Surgery, Dışkapı Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. borakerim@yahoo.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dernegi)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23188612

Abstract

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.

Language: en