Abstract:370Urological Survey names, correctly (I believe) determined that most severely injured kidneys healed without the need for surgery. Even 6 patients with gunshot wound were given a trial of conservative therapy -all of them successfully. Only those who where actively bleeding to death (in the estimation of the attending general surgeon) had renal surgery, and that was a speedy nephrectomy in all cases. In this way, these surgeons have turned classic urologic trauma teaching on its head, reducing the operative … Show more
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