Effects of a femoral shaft fracture on multiply injured patients with a head injury

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 365-369

  Nau, Thomas ^a,b   Kutscha Lissberg, Fritz ^a   Muellner, Thomas ^a   Koenig, Franz ^a   Vecsei, Vilmos ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADOLESCENT; COMORBIDITY; FEMUR FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA;

EID: 0037968504     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6412-7     Document Type: Article

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