Management of Traumatic Diaphragmatic Rupture

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-114

  Haciibrahimoglu, Gokhan ^a,b   Solak, Okan ^a   Olcmen, Aysun ^a   Bedirhan, Mehmet Ali ^a   Solmazer, Nur ^a   Gurses, Atilla ^a  

^a Yedikule Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Emergency thoracotomy; Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OMENTUM; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; STOMACH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0442276169     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2662-8     Document Type: Article

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