Nonoperative management reduces the overall mortality of grades 3 and 4 blunt liver injuries

International Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 251-257

  Coimbra, Raul ^a,b   Hoyt, David B ^a   Engelhart, Sandra ^a   Fortlage, Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt abdominal trauma; Blunt liver injury; Complications; Failure nonoperative management; Hepatic trauma; Mortality; Nonoperative management; Operative management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIVER; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIVER; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33750107223     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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