Table 6.

Associated injuries among patients with blunt diaphragmatic ruptures admitted to the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre between January 1986 and December 2003

Site of injury	% of patients
Abdomen
Liver	63.5
Spleen	52.9
Small bowel/mesentery	46.2
Colon/rectum	30.3
Kidney	25.0
Bladder	15.4
Vascular	10.1
Stomach	5.3
Chest
Rib fracture	75.5
Pulmonary contusion	63.0
Hemothorax	40.4
Hemopneumothorax	22.1
Flail chest	20.7
Pneumothorax	19.7
Cardiac contusion/laceration	18.8
Lung laceration	8.7
Thoracic aorta	7.7