Evidence-based validation of the predictive value of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma kidney injury scale

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 933-939

  Shariat, Shahrokh F ^a   Roehrborn, Claus G ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Dhami, Gurleen ^a   Stage, Key H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kidney injury; Nephrectomy; Renal exploration; Trauma; Urology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY INJURY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KIDNEY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TRAUMATOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34247267729     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318031ccf9     Document Type: Article

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