Parameters of multiple organ dysfunction fail to predict secondary amputation following limb salvage in multiply traumatized patients

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-207

  Seekamp, Andreas ^a   Regel, Gerd ^a   Hildebrand, Frank ^a   Sander, Johannes ^a   Tscherne, Harald ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LIMB INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MONITORING; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0032905153     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00229-0     Document Type: Article

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