Spontaneous pneumoperitoneum: A case secondary to thoracic trauma;Pneumoperitoneo spontaneo: Presentazione di un caso secondario a trauma toracico

Minerva Chirurgica

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 497-502

  Urso, G ^a,c   Palladino, E ^a   Andriulo, N ^a   Marinelli, T ^a   Perrotta, N ^a   Loffredo, D ^a   Genova, G ^b  

^a Unità Operativa Complessa di Chirurgia Generale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c Contrada Torrelunga ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Peritoneal diseases; Pneumoperitoneum; Thoracic diseases; Thoracic injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIURETICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 38849184605     PISSN: 00264733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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