Intraabdominal injury is common in blunt trauma patients who sustain spinal cord injury

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1035-1038

  Salim, Ali ^a,b   Ottochian, Marcus ^a   Gertz, Ryan J ^a   Brown, Carlos ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAABDOMINAL INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 38449114357     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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