Portal Venous Gas after Blunt Trauma: A Case Report

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 982-984

  Kalb, David ^a   Roberts, Shawn ^a   Cumming, John ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS SURGERY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0346903004     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000023168.75603.B5     Document Type: Article

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