Role of ultrasonography, computed tomography and diagnostic peritoneal lavage in abdominal blunt trauma

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1350-1355

  Al Salamah, Saleh M ^a   Mirza, Shaukat M ^b   Ahmad, Sheikh N ^c   Khalid, Kamran K ^b  

^a Riyadh Medical Complex ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c King Abdulaziz Medical City   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PANCREAS INJURY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0036873437     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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