Computed tomographic and selective laparoscopy in the diagnosis of blunt bowel injury: A prospective study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 696-703

  Mitsuhide, Kitano ^a   Junichi, Sasaki ^a   Atsushi, Nagashima ^a   Masakazu, Doi ^a   Shinobu, Hayashi ^a   Tomohisa, Egawa ^a   Hiroshi, Yoshii ^a   Fakhry, Samir M ^b   Leppaniemi, Ari ^b   McQuay, Nathaniel ^b   Wisner, David H ^b  

^a Saiseikai Kanagawa ken Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bowel injury; Computed tomographic scan; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CELIOTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE SURGERY; LACERATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY; ORGAN INJURY; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 20944436778     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000159242.93309.F6     Document Type: Article

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