Selective nonoperative management of gunshot wounds of the anterior abdomen

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 178-183

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a,b   Velmahos, George ^a   Cornwell III, Edward ^a   Berne, Thomas V ^a   Cober, Sheldon ^a   Bhasin, Paramdeep S ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a   Asensio, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031050784     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430260076017     Document Type: Article

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