Chest wall thickness in military personnel: Implications for needle thoracentesis in tension pneumothorax

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1260-1263

  Harcke, H Theodore ^a,b,c   Pearse, Lisa A ^b   Levy, Angela D ^c   Getz, John M ^b   Robinson, Stephen R ^b  

^a Dover Air Force Base   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEEDLE; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; SOLDIER; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX WALL;

EID: 37249042723     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.12.1260     Document Type: Article

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