Humeral shaft fractures as predictors of intra-abdominal injury in motor vehicle collision victims

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-9

  Adili, Anthony ^a   Bhandari, Mohit ^a   Sprague, Sheila ^a   Dunlop, R Brett ^a   Schemitsch, Emil H ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humeral fracture; Injury patterns; Injury Severity Score; Motor vehicle collision

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOREARM FRACTURE; HAND FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INCIDENCE; LEG FRACTURE; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEATBELT; SPLEEN INJURY; TIBIA FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0036942120     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020100315     Document Type: Article

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