The utility of serial computed tomography imaging of blunt splenic injury: Still worth a second look?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1143-1147

  Weinberg, Jordan A ^a   Magnotti, Louis J ^b   Croce, Martin A ^b   Edwards, Norma M ^b   Fabian, Timothy C ^b  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34248334636     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318047b7c2     Document Type: Article

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