Zawar Khichi, Hakim Khan Afridi, Abdul Mateen, Ghulam Qadir Kahiri.
Audit of Thoraco-Abdominal Injuries in Road Traffic Accidents in Larkana – Autopsy Study.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;7(4):1109-12.

A postmortem study of 110 cases of victims dying exclusively due to thoraco-abdominal injuries was undertaken at Chandka Medical College (CMC) Hospital, Larkana. The study revealed amongst all the victims of fatal road traffic accidents a substantive number (47.4%) of victims had thoraco-abdominal Injuries with an adult male preponderance. Most of these cases (50.9%) died at the spot with very few (1.8%) surviving more than 12 hours. Majority of the victims (29%) had involvement of both chest and abdomen whereas only 7.3% of the victims had a combination of injuries of the chest, abdomen and fracture of pelvis. The lungs (52.7%) in the chest and the liver (56.3%) in the abdomen were the commonest solid organs involved besides perforation of intestines (10.9%) amongst hollow viscera. Pedestrians (54.5%) were the most vulnerable amongst the victims; whereas trucks (42.1%) and buses (34.2%) formed the majority of offending vehicles.

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