The role of pelvic fractures in the course of treatment and outcome of trauma patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 623-626

  Gurevitz, Shelly ^a,b   Bender, Benjamin ^a,b   Tytiun, Yehezkel ^a,b   Velkes, Steven ^a,b   Salai, Moshe ^a,b   Stein, Michael ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pelvic fracture; Trauma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FACE SURGERY; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDICS; PELVIS ANGIOGRAPHY; PELVIS FRACTURE; SKULL SURGERY; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL WARD; SURVIVAL; THORAX INJURY; THORAX SURGERY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27144552875     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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