Presentation of blunt small intestinal and mesenteric injuries

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-106

  Pikoulis, Emmanouil ^a   Delis, Spiros ^b   Psalidas, Nicholaos ^a   Leppäniemi, Ari ^a   Derlopas, Konstantinos ^b   Pavlakis, Emmanouil ^a   Mantonakis, Stylianos ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Korinthos   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accident; Blunt trauma; Motor vehicle; Perforation; Small intestine; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESENTERY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEATBELT; SHOCK; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034057119     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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