Abdominal injuries associated with lumbar spine fractures in blunt trauma

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 471-474

  Rabinovici, Reuven ^b   Ovadia, Philip ^a   Mathiak, Guenther ^a   Abdullah, Fizan ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPLEEN INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PHILADELPHIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032816653     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(99)00134-5     Document Type: Article

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