Management of sternal fractures: 239 cases

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 145-149

  Potaris, Konstantinos ^a   Gakidis, John ^a   Mihos, Peter ^a   Voutsinas, Valsamakis ^a   Deligeorgis, Anastasios ^a   Petsinis, Vasilios ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; COCODAMOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BLOWOUT FRACTURE; FALLING; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REST; RIB FRACTURE; SEATBELT INJURY; STERNUM; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GREECE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEAT BELTS; STERNUM; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0036280648     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230201000212     Document Type: Article

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