Blunt splenic rupture - Experience in a preserving non-operatively orientated care team in a tropical hospital

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 41-44

  Ravera, M ^a   Cocozza, E ^a   Reggiori, A ^a  

^a Regional Teaching Hospital   (Uganda)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; UGANDA; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032813929     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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