Gastrointestinal disruption: The hazard of nonoperative management in adults with blunt abdominal injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1988, Pages 1445-1449

  Fischer, Ronald P ^a   Miller Crotchett, Priscilla ^a   Reed, R Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; AGE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; HUMAN; INTESTINE RUPTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STOMACH RUPTURE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0023737572     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198810000-00006     Document Type: Article

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