Recent changes in the management of blunt splenic injury: Effect on splenic trauma patients and hospital implications

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-112

  Sinha, Surajit ^a,b   Raja, S V V ^a   Lewis, M H ^a  

^a ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blunt splenic trauma; Blunt trauma; Splenic injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 41349098581     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588408X242033     Document Type: Article

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