High success with nonoperative management of blunt hepatic trauma: The liver is a sturdy organ

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 475-481

  Velmahos, George C ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Radin, Randall ^b   Chan, Linda ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Tillou, Areti ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Norwood, Scott ^c   Smith, R Stephen ^c   Borzotta, Anthony P ^c   Organ Jr , Claude H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LACERATIONS; LIVER; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0038371061     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.5.475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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