General surgery section. Civilian abdominal gunshot wounds in Lagos

Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 230-234

  Adesanya, A A ^a,b   Afolabi, I R ^a   Da Rocha Afodu, J T ^a  

^a LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Abdominal gunshot wounds; Selective conservative management

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0032135280     PISSN: 00358835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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