Complex injuries from a gunshot injury to the upper abdomen. Have we moved to the post surgery era?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 930-934

  O'Rourke, Edward J ^a   Thakar, C ^a   Tibballs, J ^a   Buscombe, J R ^a   Hilson, A J W ^a   Rolles, K ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COMMON BILE DUCT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EMERGENCIES; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 22544434920     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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