Changing indications for thoracotomy in blunt chest trauma after the advent of videothoracoscopy

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1088-1091

  Mineo, Tommaso C ^a,b   Ambrogi, Vincenzo ^a   Cristino, Benedetto ^a   Pompeo, Eugenio ^a   Pistolese, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blunt thoracic trauma; Thoracotomy; Videothoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; EMPYEMA; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLAIL CHEST; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT INJURY; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0033462149     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199912000-00017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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