Pneumobilia after blunt trauma: A self-limited condition?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 637-639

  Barnes, Stephen L ^a   Badrudduja, Mustafa ^a   Bernard, Andrew C ^a   Boulanger, Bernard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUNKEN DRIVING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PNEUMOBILIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ABDOMINAL INJURY; AIR; BILE; BLUNT TRAUMA; HEMATOTHORAX; INJURY; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; THORAX INJURY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AIR; BILE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; SPLENIC RUPTURE; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33645552290     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000204942.51205.21     Document Type: Article

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