Breast Trauma: A United States-Based Epidemiological Study From 2016 to 2019
Matthew Hager, Aparajita Spencer, Adam Wegener, Hanah Lee, Michelle Fillion, James Yon · 2023
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Matthew Hager and co-authors measure how breast injuries show up in trauma patients across the United States, in a 2023 study. Breast trauma is often missed, above all in women hurt in many places at once. The team searched the national trauma databank for cases from 2016 to 2019 and split injuries into scrapes, bruises, and open wounds.
Patients with scrapes or bruises went to intensive care more often than those with open wounds. Their overall injury severity scores were also higher, a median of nine against five. Death rates followed the same pattern, at about 15 and 14 percent for scrapes and bruises against 11 percent for open wounds. The authors argue that a seemingly minor breast bruise can mark a much larger force at work, and they urge trauma teams to treat it as a warning sign.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Matthew Hager, Aparajita Spencer, Adam Wegener, Hanah Lee, Michelle Fillion, James Yon |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |