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Traumatic injury, intentional or unintentional, is the main cause of deaths in children and adolescents than all other causes put together. Blunt form of trauma is a more common injury in children. The penetrating type of trauma constitutes 10–20% of all admissions in children with the increase in violence among 13–18-year-olds. It must be stressed that the pediatric patient is different physiologically from an adult counterpart but the basic principles remain the same [1].
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Khan, T.R., Khan, R.A. (2018). Genitourinary Injuries in Pediatric Blunt Trauma. In: Ahmad Khan, R., Wahab, S. (eds) Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Children. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0692-1_11
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