Non-operative management of splenic injury in adults - Current management status and controversies

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 33-34

  Degiannis, Elias ^a   Bowley, Douglas M ^a   Smith, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROPERDIN; TUFTSIN;

ACCIDENT; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FALSE ANEURYSM; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUTROPHIL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SYNCOPE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; HUMANS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038152838     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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