Incidence and crash mechanisms of aortic injury during the past decade

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 664-667

  Schulman, Carl I ^a   Carvajal, Daniel ^a   Lopez, Peter P ^b   Soffer, Dror ^c   Habib, Fahim ^a   Augenstein, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automotive safety; Blunt aortic injury; Fatality; Motor vehicle crash

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEATBELT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; SAFETY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34147158199     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318031b58c     Document Type: Article

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