A hidden danger of childhood trauma: Bicycle handlebar injuries

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 572-574

  Karaman, Ibrahim ^a,b   Karaman, Ayşe ^a   Aslan, Mustafa Kemal ^a   Erdoǧan, Derya ^a   Çavuşoǧlu, Yusuf Hakan ^a   Tütün, Özden ^a  

^a DR SAMI ULUS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bicycle handlebar injury; Gastrointestinal perforation; Splenic trauma; Trauma; Traumatic abdominal wall hernia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BICYCLING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67651162114     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3931-3     Document Type: Article

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