Blunt Thyroid Trauma With Acute Hemorrhage and Respiratory Distress

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 381-385

  Oka, Yoshio ^a   Nishijima, Junichi ^a   Azuma, Tatsuo ^a   Inada, Keiji ^a   Miyazaki, Satoru ^a   Nakano, Hiroshi ^a   Nishida, Yukihiro ^a   Sakata, Kazuya ^a   Hashimoto, Jun ^a   Izukura, Masaaki ^a  

^a Higashiosaka City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt neck trauma; hemorrhage into thyroid adenoma; respiratory distress

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; HALOPERIDOL;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FALLING; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM; NECK INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID GLAND;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOMA; AGED; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRACHEA; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34248223150     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.08.019     Document Type: Article

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