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The landscape of penetrating pediatric injury will vary depending on the community in which you practice surgery. In developing countries especially those characterized by civil strife and political change in areas such as Central Africa and the Middle East, children get caught up in the vortex of violence and are injured by bullets and shrapnel from explosives and blasts. The pattern of injury in these groups may be similar to the injuries seen in adult victims but are often much more severe due to the greater injuring capacity of weapons on such small bodies.

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  1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, USA

    Graeme Pitcher

  2. Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1086, USA

    Graeme Pitcher

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  1. Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA

    George C. Velmahos

  2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Milpark Hospital Academic Trauma Centre and Leratong Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Elias Degiannis

  3. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Dietrich Doll

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Pitcher, G. (2017). The Pediatric Patient. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_73

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