Pulmonary tractotomy as an abbreviated thoracotomy technique

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1015-1023

  Wall, Matthew J ^a,b   Villavicencio, Raphael T ^a   Miller III, Charles C ^a   Aucar, John A ^a   Granchi, Thomas A ^a   Liscum, Kathleen R ^a   Shin, David ^a   Mattox, Kenneth L ^a  

^a BEN TAUB GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LIGATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY TRACTOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY;

EID: 0344450794     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199812000-00008     Document Type: Article

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