Wound Penetrating

A wound is always serious and dangerous to human health if we are talking about severe damage to the integrity of the human body. In surgery, a wound is called a penetrating, or transitional, wound if it communicates with some external environment. A wound is considered penetrating when the

Wounds in which the wound channel connects to one of the body cavities are called penetrating. These cavities include the parietal and visceral abdominal cavity, mediastinum (retroperitoneal space), pleural cavity (chest cavity), cellular spaces of the retroperitoneal space and retroperitoneal cellular tissue. The term “penetrating wound” combines several types of injuries:

1. Thoracoabdominal wounds are characterized by the fact that the wound channel in this case extends from the posterior surface of the chest to the abdominal cavity or from the visceral surface of the peritoneum to the costal arch.

2. Pleural injuries are those injuries that are characterized by the spread of the wound line anteriorly and posteriorly along one of the walls of the pleural cavity.

3. Intrapleural injuries refer to those types of injuries in the presence of which the wound, if it