War abdominal trauma: Usefulness of penetrating abdominal trauma index, injury severity score, and number of injured abdominal organs as predictive factors

Military Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 226-230

  Sikic N ^a   Korac Z ^a   Krajacic I ^a   Zunic J ^a  

^a KARLOVAC GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CROATIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; WAR;

EID: 0035106535     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/166.3.226     Document Type: Article

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