Blunt splenic trauma: Predictors for successful non-operative management

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 857-861

  Bala, Miklosh ^a   Edden, Yair ^a   Mintz, Yoav ^a   Kisselgoff, David ^a   Gercenstein, Irina ^a   Rivkind, Avraham I ^a   Farugy, Muhammad ^a   Almogy, Gidon ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blunt splenic trauma; Extra abdominal injury; Non operative management; Predictors; Splenectomy; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 37849025856     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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