Blunt abdominal injury: Serum ALT-A marker of liver injury and a guide to assessment of its severity

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1069-1074

  Srivastava, Aseem Ranjan ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Agarwal, G G ^b   Ranjan, Priyadarshi ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Blunt hepatic injury; Blunt liver injury; Serum ALT

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIA; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSFUSION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34547957639     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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