Blunt chest trauma: An experimental model for heart and lung contusion

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 744-749

  Wang, Nai Dong ^a   Stevens, Mark H ^a   Doty, Donald B ^a   Hammond, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt chest trauma; Cardiac contusion; Pulmonary contusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENERGY; EUTHANASIA; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FATALITY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART INJURY; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA;

ANIMALS; CONTUSIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART INJURIES; LUNG; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0038747127     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000052362.40754.F2     Document Type: Article

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