Ultrasonography for the diagnosis of intraperitoneal free air in chest-abdominal-pelvic blunt trauma and critical acute abdominal pain

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-141

  Moriwaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugiyama, Mitsugi ^a   Toyoda, Hiroshi ^a   Kosuge, Takayuki ^a   Arata, Sinju ^a   Iwashita, Masayuki ^a   Tahara, Yoshio ^a   Suzuki, Noriyuki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAPERITONEAL FREE AIR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS INJURY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGEON; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; DUODENUM; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LIVER; PELVIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 61549128223     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2008.553     Document Type: Article

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