Splenic injury: Trends in evaluation and management

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-286

  Brasel, Karen J ^a   DeLisle, Christine M ^a   Olson, Christine J ^a   Borgstrom, David C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY;

EID: 0031916699     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199802000-00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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