Self-inflicted abdominal stab wounds

Injury

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-39

  Abdullah, Fizan ^a   Nuernberg, Amy ^a   Rabinovici, Reuven ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BODY REGIONS; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETHALITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; TRAUMATOLOGY; URBAN AREA; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; URBAN HEALTH; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0037229802     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00084-0     Document Type: Article

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