Neck Injuries

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-85

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Salim, Ali ^b   Brown, Carlos ^b   Martin, Matthew ^c   Rhee, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; OXYGEN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LARYNX INJURY; LARYNX SURGERY; LOW FAT DIET; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NECK DISSECTION; NECK INJURY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHARYNX DISEASE; PLEURODESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RESUSCITATION; STENT; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC DUCT; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA SURGERY; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NECK INJURIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847082099     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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