The risk of percutaneous chest tube thoracostomy for blunt thoracic trauma

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1985, Pages 865-870

  Daly, Richard C ^a   Mucha, Peter ^a   Pairolero, Peter C ^a   Farnell, Michael B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

thoracostomy, trauma, blunt, chest and; trauma, blunt, chest, thoracostomy and

Indexed keywords

BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPLICATION; EMPYEMA; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THERAPY; THORAX; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EMERGENCIES; EMPYEMA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACIC SURGERY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0022179213     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(85)80635-1     Document Type: Article

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