Serum amylase level on admission in the diagnosis of blunt injury to the pancreas: Its significance and limitations

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 70-76

  Takishima, Tsunemasa ^a   Sugimoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Hirata, Mitsuhiro ^a   Asari, Yasushi ^a   Ohwada, Takashi ^a   Kakita, Akira ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AMYLASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0030810181     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199707000-00010     Document Type: Article

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