Proximal splenic angioembolization does not improve outcomes in treating blunt splenic injuries compared with splenectomy: A cohort analysis

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1346-1351

  Duchesne, Juan C ^b,c   Simmons, Jon D ^a   Schmieg Jr , Robert E ^a   McSwain Jr , Norman E ^b,c   Bellows, Charles F ^b,c  

^a Division of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ARDS; Outcomes; Proximal splenic artery angioembolization; Sepsis; Spleen; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650588169     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31818c29ea     Document Type: Article

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