The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Complicating Nonoperative Management of Major Blunt Liver Injuries: Recognition and Treatment Using Multimodality Therapy

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 982-986

  Yang, Edmund Y ^a   Marder, Shelley R ^a   Hastings, Geoff ^a   Knudson, M Margaret ^a  

^a Tulane Department of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; ECCHYMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0036092419     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200205000-00026     Document Type: Article

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