Maxillofacial injuries caused by terrorist bomb attack in Nairobi, Kenya
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Date
2002Author
Odhiambo Wallter A.
Guthua Symon W.
Macigo Francis G.
Akama Mathew K.
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Although military conflicts are common on the African continent, there is a paucity of data regarding bomb-blast injuries in this region and in Kenya in particular. This paper describes the pattern of maxillofacial injuries sustained after the August 1998 bomb blast that occurred in Nairobi, Kenya. A retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out using hospital-based records of 290
bomb-blast survivors admitted at the Kenyatta National Referral and Teaching Hospital in Nairobi. Using a self-designed form to record information about variables such as the sex and age of the survivors and type of location of soft- and hard-tissue injuries, it was found that of the 290 bomb-blast survivors, 78'1" had sustained one or more maxillofacial injuries. Soft-tissue injuries (cuts, lacerations or bruises) were the most common, constituting 61.3% of all injuries in the maxillofacial region; 27.6% had severe eye injuries, while 1.4% had fractures in the cranio-facial region. This paper concludes that the effective management of bomb-blast injuries as well as those caused by other types of disaster requires a multidisciplinary approach. The high percentage of maxillofacial injuries confirm that maxillofacial surgeons should form an integral part of this multidisciplinary team.
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10560http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12361069
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International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.Publisher
Elsevier Science Ltd Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Maxillofacial injuries caused by terrorist bomb attack in Nairobi, Kenya
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