Surgical Treatment of Liver Trauma (Analysis of 244 patients)

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 54, 2003, Pages 2109-2111

  Gür, Serhat ^a,b   Örsel, Atilla ^a   Atahan, Kemal ^a   Hökmez, Atilla ^a   Tarcan, Ercüment ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Liver trauma; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRAIN; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER RUPTURE; LIVER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TURKEY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0344961304     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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