Blunt splenic injuries: Have we watched long enough?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 656-663

  Smith, Jason ^a   Armen, Scott ^a   Cook, Charles H ^a   Martin, Larry C ^b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt splenic injuries; Splenic trauma; Time to operation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN SURGERY; BLEEDING; DATA BASE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 40549145836     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181650fb4     Document Type: Article

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