1. Female pediatric and adolescent genitalia trauma: a retrospective analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank
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Fan, Shannon M, Grigorian, Areg, Chaudhry, Haris H, Allen, Angela, Sun, Beatrice, Jasperse, Nathan, Albertson, Spencer, and Nahmias, Jeffry
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Reproductive Medicine ,Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Physical Injury - Accidents and Adverse Effects ,Childhood Injury ,Clinical Research ,Pediatric ,Violence Research ,Injuries and accidents ,Good Health and Well Being ,Peace ,Justice and Strong Institutions ,Accidents ,Traffic ,Adolescent ,Child ,Databases ,Factual ,Female ,Genitalia ,Female ,Humans ,Rape ,Retrospective Studies ,Risk Factors ,Young Adult ,Pediatric trauma ,Genitalia injury ,Sexual abuse ,Vaginal trauma ,Vulva trauma ,Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine ,Pediatrics ,Clinical sciences ,Paediatrics - Abstract
PurposePediatric genitalia injury represents 0.6% of all pediatric trauma. It is crucial for providers to understand whether pediatric patients are at risk for violent mechanisms, such as rape, assault, or other abuse. Therefore, we sought to perform a large database analysis of pediatric and adolescent female genitalia trauma, comparing mechanisms of injury (i.e., sexual abuse) and need for operative intervention between adolescent and pediatric cohorts.MethodsThe National Trauma Data Bank was queried (years 2007-2015) for female patients ≤ 16 years old with external genitalia (vaginal or vulvar) trauma. Two groups were compared: pediatrics (
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- 2020