Penetrating cardiac injuries: Recent experience in South Africa

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1258-1264

  Degiannis, Elias ^a,b   Loogna, Peter ^a   Doll, Dietrich ^a   Bonanno, Fabrizio ^a   Bowley, Douglas M ^a   Smith, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33746070767     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0463-5     Document Type: Review

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