Biomechanical analysis and clinical treatment of blunt renal trauma

Swiss Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 237-243

  Schmidlin, F ^a   Farshad, M ^b   Bidaut, L ^a   Barbezat, M ^b   Becker, C ^a   Niederer, P ^c   Graber, P ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Fed Institutes Mat Test R

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Finite Element simulation, material characterization; Injury mechanisms; Renal trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; KIDNEY INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0031714076     PISSN: 10239332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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