[Incisional, stab and gunshot wounds of the abdomen and thorax].

The authors give an account of the incidence and prognosis of the mentioned injuries treated during the past five years (1987-1991) at the surgical department of a district hospital in the centre of Prague. During the past two years a marked increase of these injuries was recorder. A total of 10 persons with abdominal injuries had ambulatory treatment and nine patients with injuries of the chest. During the same period 24 patients with abdominal injuries and 6 patients with chest injuries were hospitalized as well as four patients with combined abdominal and chest injuries. Nineteen ambulatory patients and 34 hospitalized patients during the five-year period are an ever increasing group of casualties who suffered injuries usually when drunk or due to violence.