Diagnosis and management of blunt abdominal solid organ injury

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 399-404

  Schroeppel, Thomas J ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a,b  

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

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal trauma; Angioembolization; Blunt hepatic injury; Blunt splenic injury; Pancreatic injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; AUTHOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SPLEEN INJURY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSFUSION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; PANCREAS; SPLEEN; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34347346209     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32825a6a32     Document Type: Review

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