Non-operative management of blunt hepatic trauma

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 461-468

  Carrillo, E H ^a   Platz, A ^a,b   Miller, F B ^a   Richardson, J D ^a   Polk Jr , H C ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT FISTULA; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEATH; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; FOLLOW UP; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; MORBIDITY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; DEATH, SUDDEN; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER; MORBIDITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0031950291     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00721.x     Document Type: Review

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