Prospective evidence of the superiority of a sonography- based algorithm in the assessment of blunt abdominal injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 632-637

  Boulanger, Bernard R ^a   McLellan, Barry A ^b   Brenneman, Frederick D ^b   Ochoa, Juan ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032882135     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199910000-00005     Document Type: Article

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