Non-operative management for blunt splenic trauma in children: An updated literature review

Surgical Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-35

  Leung, Edmund ^a   Wong, Ling ^a   Taylor, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Non operative management; Splenic rupture; Splenorraphy

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LACERATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SPLEEN ANGIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN INJURY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 33845934629     PISSN: 17441625     EISSN: 17441633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-1633.2007.00334.x     Document Type: Review

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