Transpelvic gunshot wounds: Routine laparotomy or selective management?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1034-1038

  Velmahos, George C ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Cornwell III, Edward E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMATURIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SAFETY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACK INJURIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATURIA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PERITONITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0031751168     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900512     Document Type: Article

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