Variables affecting outcome in blunt chest trauma: Flail Chest vs. Pulmonary Contusion

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 298-304

  Clark, Gary C ^a   Schecter, William P ^a   Trunkey, Donald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATALITY; FLAIL CHEST; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; FLAIL CHEST; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0023945258     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198803000-00004     Document Type: Article

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