Diagnosis of blunt intestinal and mesenteric injury in the era of multidetector CT technology are results better?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 354-359

  Peter, Akpofure ^b   Saxe, Jonathan ^a   Walusimbi, Mbaga ^a   Tchorz, Kathryn M ^a   Woods, Randy J ^a   Anderson, Harry L ^a   McCarthy, Mary C ^a  

^a Research Institute   (United States)

^b MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INJURY; LACERATION; LAPAROTOMY; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY TRAUMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPERATING ROOM; ORGAN INJURY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SMALL INTESTINE; ADOLESCENT; BLUNT TRAUMA; INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MESENTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, LARGE; LACERATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67649199330     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181801cf0     Document Type: Article

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