Blunt trauma to the spleen

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 333-337

  Aseervatham, R ^a,b   Muller, M ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Spleen; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034111035     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01821.x     Document Type: Article

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