Diagnostic delay increases morbidity in children with gastrointestinal perforation from blunt abdominal trauma

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 178-182

  Öztürk, Hayrettin ^a   Önen, Abdurrahman ^a   Otçu, Selçuk ^a   Dokucu, Ali Ihsan ^a   Yaǧmur, Yusuf ^a   Kaya, Mete ^b   Yücesan, Selçuk ^b  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Child; Gastrointestinal perforation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; ILEUM; JEJUNUM; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORGAN INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; JEJUNAL DISEASES; MALE; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0037232432     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300040     Document Type: Article

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