Scapula fractures: A marker for concomitant injury? A retrospective review of data in the national trauma database

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 430-435

  Baldwin, Keith D ^a   Ohman Strickland, Pamela ^a   Mehta, Samir ^a   Hume, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associated injury; Multiinjuries; Scapula fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SCAPULA FRACTURE; SPINE FRACTURE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIC GIRDLE; REGISTER; RISK; SCAPULA; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX INJURY; UNITED STATES;

ECHINOCANDIN; MULUNDOCANDIN;

ADULT; ECHINOCANDINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ODDS RATIO; PELVIC BONES; PNEUMOTHORAX; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIB FRACTURES; SCAPULA; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649233162     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31817fd928     Document Type: Article

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