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Predictive factors for conservative treatment failure in paediatric blunt renal trauma

1 March 2017 | | Paediatric Urology, Trauma and Emergency Urology | Complications, Kidney, Pediatrics, Treatment outcome, Wounds and injuries

Blunt renal trauma is managed conservatively in children in the vast majority of cases. Grade IV renal injury is also generally managed non-operatively although occasionally intervention is needed for a urinoma that fails to settle. These authors retrospectively looked at...