The evolution of blunt splenic injury: Resolution and progression

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1085-1091

  Savage, Stephanie A ^a   Zarzaur, Ben L ^b   Magnotti, Louis J ^b   Weinberg, Jordan A ^c   Maish, George O ^b   Bee, Tiffany K ^b   Minard, Gayle ^b   Schroeppel, Thomas ^b   Croce, Martin A ^b   Fabian, Timothy C ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

CT scan; Follow up; Injury; Outpatient; Rupture; Spleen

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC RUPTURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 42049099465     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31816920f1     Document Type: Article

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