Liver injuries in children: The role of selective non-operative management

Injury

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-71

  Landau, A ^a   Van As, A B ^a   Numanoglu, A ^a   Millar, A J W ^a   Rode, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Children; Conservative; Liver; Management; Rupture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FALLING; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER INJURY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 30344465352     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2005.07.013     Document Type: Article

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