New insight for management of blunt splenic trauma: Significant differences between young and elderly

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 46, 2002, Pages 1144-1149

  Tsugawa, Kouji ^a   Koyanagi, Nobuhiro ^a   Hashizume, Makoto ^a   Ayukawa, Katsuhiko ^a   Wada, Hiroya ^a   Tomikawai, Morimasa ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt splenic trauma; Elderly patient; Non operative treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036021379     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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