The ongoing challenge of retroperitoneal vascular injuries

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 541-545

  Coimbra, Raul ^a   Hoyt, David B ^a,b   Winchell, Robert ^a   Simons, Richard ^a   Fortlage, Dale ^a   Garcia, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; SHOCK; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY; VEIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0030297482     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(96)00231-0     Document Type: Article

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