Lethal abdominal gunshot wounds at a level I trauma center: Analysis of TRISS (Revised Trauma Score and Injury Severity Score) fallouts

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-129

  Cornwe, Edward E ^a,b   Velmahos, George C ^a   Berne, Thomas V ^a   Tatevossian, Raymond ^a   Beizberg, Howard ^a   Eckstein, Mark ^a   Murray, James A ^a   Asensio, Juan A ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0031877150     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(98)00182-3     Document Type: Article

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