Role of postoperative computed tomography in patients with severe liver injury

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1398-1400

  Demetriades, D ^a,b   Karaiskakis, M ^a   Alo, K ^a   Velmahos, G ^a   Murray, J ^a   Asensio, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIQUID; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0242469079     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4312     Document Type: Article

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