Management of paediatric blunt splenic injury in Zaria, Nigeria

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 399-401

  Ameh, Emmanuel A ^a  

^a AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; NIGERIA; OBSERVATION; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032792428     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(99)00096-0     Document Type: Article

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