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Forty patients sustained penetrating trauma while 15 patients sustained blunt trauma. The mean Injury Severity Score was 19 (range 9\u201334). Intra-abdominal sepsis (51 per cent) was the commonest indication, followed by visceral oedema (18 per cent), abdominal compartment syndrome (16 per cent), intra-abdominal packing (11 per cent) and abdominal wall defects (4 per cent). The overall mortality rate was 45 per cent. Three patients (5 per cent) developed enterocutaneous fistula. 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