Case 41-2009: A 16-year-old boy with hypothermia and frostbite

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 2654-

  Sheridan, Robert L ^a,d   Goldstein, Mark A ^b,d   Stoddard Jr , Frederick J ^a,c,d   Walker, T Gregory ^c,d  

^a Burns Service

^b Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD; COLD INJURY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LIMB; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SHIVERING; WARMING; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; AMPUTATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FOOT INJURY; HALLUX; HAND; HAND INJURY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOOT INJURIES; FROSTBITE; HALLUX; HAND; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; REWARMING; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 74049110872     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/nejmcpc0910088     Document Type: Article

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