Sternal fractures: Retrospective analysis of 100 cases

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1243-1246

  Athanassiadi, Kalliopi ^a,b   Gerazounis, Michalis ^a   Moustardas, Marios ^a   Metaxas, Efstathios ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; HEART ENZYME; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; AGED; ARM INJURY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEATBELT; STERNUM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FALLING; FRACTURE; GREECE; INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM;

EID: 0036777981     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6511-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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