Laparoscopic management of a combat military injury during the Lebanon War in August 2006

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Israelit, Shlomo H ^a   Krausz, Michael M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEBANON; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SOLDIER; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WAR; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LAPAROSCOPY; LEBANON; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAR; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 72449125229     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31802e7489     Document Type: Article

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