Perihepatic packing of major liver injuries: Complications and mortality

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 958-963

  Caruso, Daniel M ^a   Battistella, Felix D ^a   Owings, John T ^a   Lee, Steven L ^a   Samaco, Rodney C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIVER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032823318     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.9.958     Document Type: Article

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