Delayed discovery of diaphragmatic injury after blunt trauma: Report of three cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 407-410

  Healy, David Gerard ^a   Veerasingam, Davendran ^a   Luke, David ^a   Wood, Alfred E ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Blunt; Delayed; Diaphragm; Injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC, TRAUMATIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 18544385306     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2947-6     Document Type: Article

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