Abdominal trauma after terrorist bombing attacks exhibits a unique pattern of injury

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 303-309

  Bala, Miklosh ^a   Rivkind, Avraham I ^a   Zamir, Gideon ^a   Hadar, Tal ^a   Gertsenshtein, Iryna ^a   Mintz, Yoav ^a   Pikarsky, Alon J ^a   Amar, Dalit ^a   Shussman, Noam ^a   Abu Gazala, Mahmoud ^a   Almogy, Gidon ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BODY REGIONS; BOMB; BRAIN INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; ISRAEL; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERRORISM; ABDOMINAL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPLOSION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERRORISM; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMATOLOGY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 49849096402     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318180a3f7     Document Type: Article

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