Management outcomes in splenic injury: A statewide trauma center review

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-24

  Clancy, Thomas V ^a,b   Ramshaw, David G ^a   Maxwell, J Gary ^a,b   Covington, Deborah L ^a,b   Churchill, M Palge ^b   Rutledge, Robert ^a   Oller, Dale W ^a,c   Cunningham, Paul R ^d   Meredith, J Wayne ^e   Thomason, Michael H ^f   Baker, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WAKEMED HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^d East Carolina Medical Center   (United States)

^e North Carolina Baptist Hospital   (United States)

^f CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN SURGERY; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; REGISTRIES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0030775955     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199707000-00003     Document Type: Review

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