Is closed diagnostic peritoneal lavage contraindicated in patients with previous abdominal surgery?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 287-290

  Moore, Gregory P ^a,b   Alden, Andrew W ^d   Rodman, George H ^c  

^a METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center   (United States)

^c Trauma Services

^d DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal trauma; diagnostic peritoneal lavage; injury; procedural contraindications

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARACENTESIS; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SCAR; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION;

EID: 0030888124     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03550.x     Document Type: Article

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