Upper extremity amputations after motor vehicle rollovers

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 410-412

  Ball, Chad G ^a,b   Rozycki, Grace S ^a   Feliciano, David V ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Motor vehicle collision; Rollover

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; LIMB REPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AMPUTATION; COHORT STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 69349098851     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181adf4eb     Document Type: Article

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