Retained foreign bodies after emergent trauma surgery: Incidence after 2526 cavitary explorations

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1031-1034

  Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Salim, Ali ^a   Brown, Carlos ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Browder, Timothy ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; RETAINED FOREIGN BODY; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TRAUMATOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; IATROGENIC DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STERNUM; SURGICAL SPONGE;

ADULT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL SPONGES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38449092584     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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