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  • Title: Traumatic injuries of the pancreas.
    Author: Graham JM, Mattox KL, Jordan GL.
    Journal: Am J Surg; 1978 Dec; 136(6):744-8. PubMed ID: 717659.
    Abstract:
    Traumatic injuries of the pancreas have evolved from an uncommon encounter of even wartime wounds to a relatively common injury of today's civilian strife. A review of 448 patients sustaining pancreatic trauma demonstrated that the pancreatic injury alone contributes little to immediate or late mortality but is frequently a source of postoperative morbidity. Complications of pancreatic injury comprise almost half of those observed after trauma in such patients, but for the most part are self-limited and easily cared for. Survival among patients sustaining pancreatic injury depends mainly upon the degree of success with which the multiple associated injuries can be managed.
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