Complications of nonoperative management of pediatric blunt hepatic injury: Diagnosis, management, and outcomes

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 334-339

  Giss, Steven R ^a   Dobrilovic, Nick ^a   Brown, Rebeccah L ^b   Garcia, Victor F ^b  

^a JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33747611931     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000197605.27190.2c     Document Type: Article

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