A comparison of right and left blunt traumatic diaphragmatic rupture

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 255-260

  Boulanger, Bernard R ^a,b   Milzman, David P ^a,b   Rosati, Carl ^a,b   Rodriguez, Aurelio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0027281997     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199308000-00014     Document Type: Article

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