Failures of splenic nonoperative management: Is the glass half empty or half full?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 230-236

  Bee, Tiffany K ^b   Croce, Martin A ^a   Miller, Preston R ^a   Pritchard, F Elizabeth ^a   Davis, Kimberly A ^c   Fabian, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0035102050     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200102000-00007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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