Identifying injuries and motor vehicle collision characteristics that together are suggestive of diaphragmatic rupture

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1139-1145

  Reiff, Donald A ^a,c   McGwin, Gerald ^a,b,c   Metzger, Jesse ^c   Windham, Samuel T ^a,c   Doss, Marilyn ^c   Rue III, Loring W ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt splenic trauma; Diaphragmatic rupture; Motor vehicle collision; Pelvic fracture

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLEEN INJURY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0036900203     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200212000-00018     Document Type: Article

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