Nonoperative management of blunt renal trauma: Is routine early follow-up imaging necessary?

BMC Urology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Malcolm, John B ^a   Derweesh, Ithaar H ^a,b   Mehrazin, Reza ^a   DiBlasio, Christopher J ^a   Vance, David D ^a   Joshi, Salil ^a   Wake, Robert W ^a,b   Gold, Robert ^a  

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

^b Regional Medical Center Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STENT; URINE EXTRAVASATION; INJURY; KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 51649104380     PISSN: 14712490     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-8-11     Document Type: Article

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