Advances in Abdominal Trauma

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 713-733

  Isenhour, Jennifer L ^a,b   Marx, John ^a,b  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; CHILD ABUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548388730     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.06.002     Document Type: Review

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