Gunshot injuries of the spine - A review of 49 cases managed at the Groote Schuur Acute Spinal Cord Injury Unit

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 165-168

  Le Roux, J C ^a   Dunn, R N ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISKITIS; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE INJURY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; STENT; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INJURY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 30444455905     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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