A comprehensive renal injury concept based on a validated finite element model of the human abdomen

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1240-1249

  Snedeker, Jess G ^a,f   Barnstuble, Brent B ^b   Iaizzo, Paul A ^b   Farshad, Mehdi ^c   Niederer, Peter ^a   Schmidlin, Franz R ^d,e  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e Clinique des Grangettes   (Switzerland)

^f Institute for Biomedical Engineering   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Blunt; Impact; Kidney; Model; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLUNT TRAUMA; CADAVER; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CAPSULE; KIDNEY INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34248588604     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000215531.05677.19     Document Type: Article

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