Short-term outcomes of splenectomy avoidance in trauma patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-217

  Kaseje, Neema ^a   Agarwal, Suresh ^a   Burch, Miguel ^a   Glantz, Andrew ^a   Emhoff, Timothy ^a   Burke, Peter ^a   Hirsch, Erwin ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Splenectomy; Splenic injury; Splenic preservation; Splenic salvage

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS LEAK; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENORRHAPHY; STOMACH FISTULA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SUTURE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL MESH; TRAUMA CENTERS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 47049087291     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.07.037     Document Type: Article

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