In an effort to characterize the trend of renal injury of recent years, we reviewed the charts and x-ray films of 50 patients with renal trauma which occurred in the last 6 years. They were 42 males and 8 females with a mean age of 26.4 years
(range: 5
to 66) and most of them are younger generation. The main causes of injury were related to falling down in 21 cases (42%) and traffic accident in 17 cases(34%), followed by stab injury in 7 cases and assault in 5 cases. The severity of renal
injury
was
classified using the renal injury scale which was published by the Organ Injury Scaling (O.I.S.) Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma(A.A.S.T.) in 1989. According to radiologic and operative findings, they were
classified
as
follows; Grade I, 4 cases; Grade II, 7 cases; Grade III, 12 cases; Grade IV, 23 cases; and Grade V, 4 cases. Of the 50 patients, 39 had gross hematuria and remaining 11 patients had microscopic hematuria. There was no correlation between the
degree
of
hematuria and the severity of renal injury (p=0.098). The major combined other organ injuries were hemoperitoneum in 12 cases, fracture of extremities in 8 cases, liver laceration in 5 cases, hemopneumothorax in 4 cases and intestinal perforation
in 2
cases. Surgical treatment was performed in 27 cases(54%) and the remaining 23 cases (46%) which were renal laceration of various degrees without intraperitoneal injuries were managed conservatively.
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