Venous trauma in the Lebanon War - 2006

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 647-650

  Nitecki, Samy S ^a   Karram, Tony ^a   Hoffman, Aaron ^a   Bass, Arie ^b  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Department of Vascular Surgery ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Combat injury; CTA in trauma; Penetrating trauma; Venous ligation; Venous reconstruction; Venous trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INJURY; BONE INJURY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; VEIN INJURY; VELOCITY; VISCERA; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; INJURY; ISRAEL; LIGATION; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SOLDIER; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN; WAR;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEBANON; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT SELECTION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS; WAR; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 34848911913     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.158014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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