Efficacy of thoracic computerized tomography in blunt chest trauma

American Surgeon

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 660-664

  Omert, Laurel ^a,b   Yeaney, Woodrow W ^a   Protetch, Jack ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RIB FRACTURES; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; HEMATOTHORAX; INJURY; RIB FRACTURE;

AORTA; FEMALE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RIB FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0035403855     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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