Predictors of outcome in patients requiring surgery for liver trauma

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-70

  Sikhondze, W L ^a   Madiba, T E ^a   Naidoo, N M ^a   Muckart, D J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Liver; Outcome; Predictor; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 33845693154     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.08.064     Document Type: Article

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