Spontaneous splenic rupture: The masquerade of minor trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1228-1230

  Tataria, Monika ^a   Dicker, Rochelle A ^a   Melcher, Marc ^a   Spain, David A ^a   Brundage, Susan I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENIC RUPTURE;

EID: 30344440116     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000196439.77828.9d     Document Type: Article

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