The higher injury risk of abnormal kidneys in blunt renal trauma

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 388-392

  Schmidlin, Franz R ^a,d   Iselin, Christophe E ^a   Naimi, Alain ^a   Rohner, Stephane ^a   Borst, François ^a   Farshad, Mehdi ^b   Niederer, Peter ^c   Graber, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abnormal kidneys; Injury mechanism; Kidney trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032406003     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003655998750015151     Document Type: Article

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