What's black and white and red (Read) all over? The bedside interpretation of diagnostic peritoneal lavage fluid

American Surgeon

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 112-118

  Bellows, Charles F ^a   Salomone, Jeffrey P ^b   Nakamura, Shelley K ^a   Choe, Ella U ^a   Flint, Lewis M ^a   Ferrara, John J ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERITONEUM LAVAGE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031885813     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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