The impact of published recommendations on the management of penetrating abdominal injury

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 515-521

  Clarke, S C E ^a   Stearns, A T ^a   Payne, C ^a   McKay, A J ^a  

^a GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICS;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 41949104782     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5995     Document Type: Article

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