Non-operative management in blunt splenic trauma

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 210-212

  Notash, A Yaghoubi ^a   Amoli, H Ahmadi ^a   Nikandish, A ^a   Kenari, A Yazdankhah ^a   Jahangiri, F ^b   Khashayar, P ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 41849145342     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.054684     Document Type: Article

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