Early selective angioembolization improves success of nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 897-902

  Wu, Shih Chi ^a   Chow, Kuan Chih ^b   Lee, Kun Hua ^a   Tung, Cheng Cheng ^a   Yang, Albert D ^a   Lo, Chong Jeh ^c  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENIC VEIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 35848940690     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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