Long-term disability after flail chest injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 410-414

  Landercasper, Jeffrey ^a   Cogbill, Thomas H ^a   Lindesmith, Larry A ^a  

^a La Crosse Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; DYSPNEA; FLAIL CHEST; HUMAN; INJURY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THERAPY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FLAIL CHEST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 0021280664     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198405000-00007     Document Type: Article

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