Trauma Outcomes and UroGenital Health in OEF/OIF (TOUGH) - A Retrospective Cohort Study with Long-Term Follow-up

Abstract

There have been three peer-reviewed three publications to date: 1) Nnamani NS, Janak JC, Hudak SJ, Rivera JC, Lewis EA, Soderdahl DW, Orman JA. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 (5 Suppl 2 Proceedings 2015 Military Health System Research Symposium):S95-S99; 2) Janak JC, Orman JA, Soderdahl DW, Hudak SJ. J Urol. 2017;197(2):414-419; and 3) Nnamani NS, Janak JC, Hudak SJ, Rivera JC, Lewis EA, Soderdahl DW, Orman JA. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016. For U.S. male service members who served in OEF/OIF from 10/ 2001 to 8/2013, 1,367 sustained 1 or more genitourinary injuries; the majority involved the external genitalia (n=1,000, 73.2%), including the scrotum (760, 55.6%), testes (451, 33.0%), penis (423, 31%) and/or urethra (125, 9.1%) There was a high frequency of concomitant GU injury and extremity amputation which has serious implications for health and quality of life presenting to prevent, mitigate, and treat these battlefield injuries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1046347

Entities

People

  • Bradley H. Pollock

Organizations

  • University of California, Davis

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Amputation
  • Battlefields
  • Biomedical Research
  • California
  • Casualties
  • Combat Injuries
  • Department Of Defense
  • Frequency
  • Genitalia
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Iraqi-War
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Personnel Management
  • Quality Of Life
  • Surgical Amputations

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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