Futility of abdominal ultrasound in penetrating abdominal injuries

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1130-

  Soffer, Dror ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAB WOUND; ULTRASOUND; ABDOMINAL INJURY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECHOGRAPHY; NOTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; MEDICAL FUTILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 73649089317     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181bbf55a     Document Type: Letter

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