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Letter to the Editor| Volume 54, ISSUE 3, P1015, March 2023

Letter to Editor: Effectiveness and safety of bilateral internal iliac artery ligation with pre-peritoneal pelvic packing for life-threatening pelvic trauma

Published:January 03, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2023.01.020
      I extend my deepest gratitude to the editor(s) for finally acknowledging that this strategy proposed by Choi et al. for managing hemodynamically unstable pelvic patients exists, works, and may be given to patients in situations where we don't have access to modern angio suites [
      • Choi K.
      • Keum M.A.
      • Choi B.
      • Noh M.
      • Choi S.
      • Kyoung K.H.
      • Kim S.
      • Hong E.S.
      • Kim J.T.
      Effectiveness and safety of bilateral internal iliac artery ligation with pre-peritoneal pelvic packing for life-threatening pelvic trauma.
      ]. I also send many congratulations to the authors for their courage of get ready to confront surgeon scientists across the world, who believe that this procedure is not an option to be considered.
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