Nonoperative management of blunt abdominal trauma: Have we gone too far?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 427-433

  Peitzman, Andrew B ^a   Ferrada, Paula ^a   Puyana, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; HUMANS; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 72449204158     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2009.021     Document Type: Review

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