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The surgical approach for TDI can be challenging, especially with bowel perforation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is a retrospective case series of all consecutive patients with TDI from two tertiary hospitals in the southern part of Nigeria between January 2013 and December 2019. The demographic data of the patients, type, cause, and clinical diagnosis, intraoperative findings, Injury Severity Score, and outcome were noted. The descriptive statistics were presented in percentages and fractions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Fourteen (4.3%) of the 326 chest trauma patients had TDI with 57.1% from penetrating causes and 42.9% from blunt causes. The causes of the TDI were gunshot injuries (42.9%), road traffic crashes (35.7%), stab injury (14.3%), and domestic accidents (7.1%). The preoperative method of diagnosis was mainly by massive haemothorax necessitating open thoracotomy (42.9%) and mixed clinical evaluation, chest radiograph, and upper gastrointestinal contrast studies (35.7%), and the drainage of intestinal content following the insertion of a chest tube to initially drain haemothorax (21.4%) and other modality of diagnoses (7.1%). The operative finding was mainly intestine content in the chest (50%) and only diaphragmatic injury (35.7%). The major complication after surgery was empyema thoracis (14.3%) and the mortality rate (14.3%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Penetrating injury of the chest was the major factor responsible for the TDI, and even with bowel perforation and acute TDI, thoracotomy offered an effective surgical approach for all the patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jwas.jwas_94_22","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,27]],"date-time":"2022-08-27T07:34:04Z","timestamp":1661585644000},"page":"53-57","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Management of Traumatic Diaphragmatic Injury\u2014A Peep into Bowel Repair Via Thoracotomy"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Kelechi E","family":"Okonta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher N","family":"Ekwunife","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emeka M","family":"Okonta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Martin AC","family":"Aghaji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","reference":[{"key":"R1-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rmedc.2009.01.002","article-title":"A review of diaphragmatic injury","volume":"2","author":"Bosanquet","year":"2009","journal-title":"Respir Med CME"},{"key":"R2-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e12849","DOI":"10.1097\/MD.0000000000012849","article-title":"Blunt traumatic diaphragmatic rupture: Single-center experience with 38 patients","volume":"97","author":"Lim","year":"2018","journal-title":"Medicine (Baltimore"},{"key":"R3-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"864","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjsurg.2014.12.023","article-title":"Traumatic diaphragmatic injury in the American College of Surgeons National Trauma Data Bank: A new examination of a rare diagnosis","volume":"209","author":"Fair","year":"2015","journal-title":"Am J Surg"},{"key":"R4-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"65","DOI":"10.1016\/j.clinimag.2017.08.010","article-title":"Evaluation of the multi-slice computed tomography outcomes in diaphragmatic injuries related to penetrating and blunt trauma","volume":"47","author":"Turmak","year":"2018","journal-title":"Clin Imaging"},{"key":"R5-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S103","DOI":"10.1148\/radiographics.22.suppl_1.g02oc14s103","article-title":"Imaging of diaphragmatic injury: A diagnostic challenge?","volume":"22","author":"Iochum","year":"2002","journal-title":"Radiographics"},{"key":"R6-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"36","DOI":"10.4174\/astr.2019.97.1.36","article-title":"Diagnostic significance of diaphragmatic height index in traumatic diaphragmatic rupture","volume":"97","author":"Kwon","year":"2019","journal-title":"Ann Surg Treat Res"},{"key":"R7-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1186\/s40001-021-00488-9","article-title":"Grave thoraco-intestinal complication secondary to an undetected traumatic rupture of the diaphragm: A case report","volume":"26","author":"Beshay","year":"2021","journal-title":"Eur J Med Res"},{"key":"R8-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"522","DOI":"10.12659\/PJR.897866","article-title":"The role of computed tomography in the diagnostics of diaphragmatic injury after blunt thoraco-abdominal trauma","volume":"81","author":"Gmachowska","year":"2016","journal-title":"Pol J Radiol"},{"key":"R9-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cjtee.2014.07.001","article-title":"Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture with combined thoracoabdominal injuries: Difference between penetrating and blunt injuries","volume":"18","author":"Gao","year":"2015","journal-title":"Chin J Traumatol"},{"key":"R10-10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"49","DOI":"10.1590\/s0102-865020180010000006","article-title":"Thoracotomy compared to laparotomy in the traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. 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