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STAB WOUND; PENETRATING ABDOMEN TRAUMA  

Historically, all patients who sustained a penetrating injury to the abdomen were treated with an e    more

Historically, all patients who sustained a penetrating injury to the abdomen were treated with an exploratory laparotomy as the accepted standard of care. However, as the field of trauma surgery expanded to handle more civilian injury and less war injury, trauma surgeons recognized that laparotomies were being performed in a substantial number of patients without significant internal organ injury.SO SELECTIVE CONSERVATIVE MANGEMENT CAN BE FOLLOWED PTS WHO ARE HD STABLE,WITHOUT PERITONITIS OR EVISCERATION    less