Management of combined penetrating cardiac and abdominal trauma

Injury

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 343-347

  Saadia, Roger ^a,b   Degiannis, Elias ^a   Levy, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERICARDIOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STAB WOUND; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0031452959     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(97)00091-0     Document Type: Article

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