Long-term results of treatment of pelvic gunshot wounds in women

Introduction. During military operations, not only military personnel but also civilians are injured. Injuries sustained by civilians have different localisations, and the pelvic organs are no exception.Purpose of the study. To study the long-term results of treatment of pelvic gunshot wounds in women.Materials and methods of research. A study of 100 female patients who had previously undergone pelvic surgery for gunshot wounds was conducted. The mean age of the subjects was 38 ± 5 years. Depending on the time of surgical treatment from the moment of injury, all the subjects were divided into two groups: A - patients who underwent surgical treatment up to one hour from the time of injury (50 patients) and B - patients who underwent surgical treatment more than one hour from the time of injury (50 patients).Results. Out of the total number of those examined, the absence of complaints related to the previously undergone surgery was noted by 36 % of the respondents, while in the remaining 64 % of observations various complaints were identified, which can be conditionally divided into psychological complaints in 23 % of observations and complaints related to pain syndrome in 41 % of cases.Conclusion. As the presented analysis shows, gunshot wounds of the small pelvis in women in the remote postoperative period are accompanied by quite a large number of complaints. However, it should be noted that the distribution of complaints depended on the time elapsed from the moment of wounding to the beginning of surgical intervention.