Transdiaphragmatic pleural lavage in penetrating thoracoabdominal trauma

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1619-1623

  Zellweger, R ^a   Navsaria, P H ^a   Hess, F ^a   Omoshoro Jones, J ^a   Kahn, D ^a   Nicol, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; THORACIC INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 10244221092     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4598     Document Type: Article

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