Thoracic Trauma: When and How to Intervene

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-118

  Meredith, J Wayne ^a   Hoth, J Jason ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHOSCOPY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INJURY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPLER; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AORTA, THORACIC; BRONCHI; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ESOPHAGUS; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; LUNG; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33751256269     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.09.014     Document Type: Review

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