1 Rate of urological combat-related injuries Percentage of all injuries sustained during the conflicts of recent decades (modified according to ). The data from the Second World War, with a urological injury rate of less than 1 % is likely to be associated with a significant number of unreported cases due to the very high mortality of abdominal injuries and therefore is of only limited informative value (Tab. 1: Incidence of injuries to the urogenital tract in OIF and OEF between 20Īccording to the experiences of recent decades in the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the former Yugoslavia, a rate of urogenital combat trauma of 3 - 5% was observed. Current data from the American Joint Theater Trauma Registry gathered from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan indicate a marked rise in urology-related injuries in recent years, to as high as 12.7% in 2010 (Fig.
