Angioembolization reduces operative intervention for blunt splenic injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1472-1477

  Wei, Benjamin ^a   Hemmila, Mark R ^b   Arbabi, Saman ^b   Taheri, Paul A ^c   Wahl, Wendy L ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Blunt spleen injury; Embolization; Operation; Splenic trauma; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; ILEUS; INJURY SCALE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS FISTULA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICS; SURGERY; THERAPY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; THERAPY; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67650302022     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318174e8cd     Document Type: Article

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