Twenty years of splenic preservation in trauma: Lower early infection rate than in splenectomy

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2730-2735

  Gauer, Jean Marc ^a   Gerber Paulet, Susanne ^a   Seiler, Christian ^b   Schweizer, Walter Paul ^a  

^a Kantonsspital ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGAN PRESERVATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349086854     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9733-3     Document Type: Article

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