Inter- and Intrarater Reliability in Computed Axial Tomographic Grading of Splenic Injury: Why so Many Grading Scales?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 334-338

  Barquist, Erik S ^a,b   Pizano, Louis R ^a   Feuer, William ^a   Pappas, Peter A ^a   McKenney, Kimberly A ^a   LeBlang, Suzanne D ^a   Henry, Robert P ^c   Rivas, Luis A ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b D Daughtry Fam Dept Surg (D 40)   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal trauma; Computed axial tomographic (CT) scan; Injury grading; Spleen; Splenic injury

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RELIABILITY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 1542316691     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000052364.71392.70     Document Type: Article

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