Abstract
T HE FREQUENCY with which reports on abdominaI trauma appear in the Iiterature is an indication of its increasing incidence and shows that it represents a real diagnostic and therapeutic chahenge. Since high speed surface trave1 is becoming more universahy avaiIabIe it is a certainty that bIunt abdomina1 trauma wiI1 continue to comprise an important fraction of the major injuries which the surgeon is called upon to treat. traversed by a large network of medium to high speed highways and parkways. The automobiIe was invoIved in 68 per cent of the cases; the patients were either drivers, passengers or pedestrians. Other causes were not unusua1; they invoIved faIIs from heights, direct bIows to the abdomen, sIedding accidents, athIetic trauma, and so forth.
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