Packing and planned reexploration for hepatic and retroperitoneal hemorrhage: Critical refinements of a useful technique

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1990, Pages 1007-1011

  Cué, Jorge I ^a   Cryer, H Gill ^a   Miller, Frank B ^a   Richardson, J David ^a   Polk, Hiram C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGERY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURES; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0025127109     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199008000-00010     Document Type: Article

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