{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,4]],"date-time":"2025-09-04T13:24:07Z","timestamp":1756992247104},"reference-count":13,"publisher":"Oxford University Press (OUP)","issue":"5","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]],"date-time":"1980-05-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":325987200000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/journals\/pages\/open_access\/funder_policies\/chorus\/standard_publication_model"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p>One hundred and thirteen patients with missile injuries of the abdomen were seen over a 3-year period at one hospital in Zimbabwe\u2013Rhodesia. The details of these injuries and the results of their treatment are presented.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Twenty-four patients died (21 per cent). Twenty of these patients had sustained high velocity missile injuries, 18 had damaged colons and 3 died from major vascular injuries before surgery. Excluding these last 3 patients, the mortality rate for high velocity wounds of the colon was 52 per cent and that for all other patients was 6 per cent (P &amp;lt; 0\u00b701). More than half the postoperative deaths were due to septicaemia.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>The importance is stressed of early and effective resuscitation, including appropriate antibiotic therapy and rapid evacuation to facilities for major surgery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/bjs.1800670502","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,3,2]],"date-time":"2007-03-02T19:13:27Z","timestamp":1172862807000},"page":"305-310","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Missile injuries of the abdomen in Zimbabwe\u2013Rhodesia"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"67","author":[{"given":"Roger I","family":"Dent","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Harare Central Hospital , Salisbury Zimbabwe\u2013Rhodesia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"George P","family":"Jena","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Harare Central Hospital , Salisbury Zimbabwe\u2013Rhodesia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"Battle Casualties","year":"1952","author":"Beebe","key":"2024092713474275200_bib1"},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib2","first-page":"602","article-title":"A survey of evacuation, resuscitation and mortality in a forward surgical hospital","volume":"37","author":"Sako","year":"1955","journal-title":"Surgery"},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"332","DOI":"10.1002\/bjs.1800550503","article-title":"Civilian battle casualties in S. Vietnam","volume":"55","author":"Dudley","year":"1968","journal-title":"Br. J. Surg."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"592","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.2.5709.592","article-title":"Ibo civilian casualties in the Nigerian civil war","volume":"1","author":"Odling-Smee","year":"1970","journal-title":"Br. Med. J."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"728","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.1.5960.728","article-title":"Surgery of violence VII: gunshot wounds of the trunk","volume":"1","author":"Stevenson","year":"1975","journal-title":"Br. Med. J."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib6","first-page":"217","article-title":"Abdominal war injuries","volume":"61","author":"Xeros","year":"1976","journal-title":"Int. Surg."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"971","DOI":"10.1097\/00000658-197106010-00015","article-title":"Surgical considerations in the management of civilian colon injuries","volume":"173","author":"Beall","year":"1971","journal-title":"Ann. Surg."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"174","DOI":"10.1097\/00000658-197302000-00008","article-title":"Gunshot wounds of the abdomen","volume":"177","author":"Taylor","year":"1973","journal-title":"Ann. Surg."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib9","first-page":"862","article-title":"Gunshot wounds of the abdomen. A review of 277 cases","volume":"111","author":"Dawidson","year":"1976","journal-title":"Ann. Surg."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"903","DOI":"10.1097\/00005373-197712000-00003","article-title":"Should laparotomy be mandatory or selective in gunshot wounds of the abdomen?","volume":"17","author":"Lowe","year":"1977","journal-title":"J. Trauma"},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"412","DOI":"10.1177\/014107687907200605","article-title":"Surgical management of gunshot injuries of the large intestine","volume":"72","author":"Parks","year":"1979","journal-title":"J. R. Soc. Med."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib12","first-page":"66","article-title":"Large bowel volvulus","volume":"15","author":"Grave","year":"1976","journal-title":"Br. J. Hosp. Med."},{"key":"2024092713474275200_bib13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"39","DOI":"10.1001\/archsurg.1969.01340070057008","article-title":"Time and its effect on casualties in World War II and Vietnam","volume":"98","author":"Haacker","year":"1969","journal-title":"Arch. Surg."}],"container-title":["Journal of British Surgery"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.wiley.com\/onlinelibrary\/tdm\/v1\/articles\/10.1002%2Fbjs.1800670502","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bjs\/article-pdf\/67\/5\/305\/59372240\/bjs1800670502.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bjs\/article-pdf\/67\/5\/305\/59372240\/bjs1800670502.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,27]],"date-time":"2024-09-27T13:47:51Z","timestamp":1727444871000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bjs\/article\/67\/5\/305\/6180447"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]]},"references-count":13,"journal-issue":{"issue":"5","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/bjs.1800670502","relation":{},"ISSN":["0007-1323","1365-2168"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0007-1323"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1365-2168"}],"subject":[],"published-other":{"date-parts":[[1980,5]]},"published":{"date-parts":[[1980,5,1]]}}}