Independent predictors of morbidity and mortality in blunt colon trauma

American Surgeon

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-79

  Ricciardi, R ^a   Paterson, C A ^a   Islam, S ^a   Sweeney, W B ^b   Baker, S P ^a   Counihan, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RECTUM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; COLON; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTUM; SEX FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 1542318835     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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