Combined Blunt Thoracic Aortic and Abdominal Trauma: Diagnostic and Treatment Priorities

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 865-867

  Fischer II, Philip J ^a   Kent III, Raleigh B ^a,b  

^a Physicians Medical Center Carraway   (United States)

^b Norwood Clinic Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; DIAPHRAGM; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HERNIA; HUMAN; INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; STOMACH DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM; HEMATOMA; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOTHORAX; HERNIA; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; SPLEEN; STOMACH DISEASES; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034268910     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200009000-00004     Document Type: Article

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