Gunshot wounds to the buttocks: Predicting the need for operation

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-311

  Velmahos, George C ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Cornwell III, Edward E ^a   Asensio, Juan ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a   Berne, Thomas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buttocks; Gluteal area; Gunshot wound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAGE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030947934     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02050420     Document Type: Article

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