Epidemiology of sternal fractures

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 401-404

  Recinos, Gustavo ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a,c   Dubose, Joseph ^b   Barmparas, Galinos ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Talving, Peep ^a   Plurad, David ^a   Green, Donald ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Inpatient Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FLAIL CHEST; FRACTURE; HEART CONTUSION; HEART INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LACERATION; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; STERNUM FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADULT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REGISTER; STATISTICS; STERNUM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIB FRACTURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STERNUM;

EID: 67449090087     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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