Nonoperative treatment of multiple intra-abdominal solid organ injury after blunt abdominal trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 943-948

  Yanar, Hakan ^a,b   Ertekin, Cemalettin ^a   Taviloglu, Korhan ^a   Kabay, Burhan ^a   Bakkaloglu, Huseyin ^a   Guloglu, Recep ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Liver injury; Multiplicity; Nonoperative treatment; Solid organ injury; Spleen injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGAN INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 42049121646     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3180342023     Document Type: Article

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