Is early reimaging CT scan necessary in patients with grades III and IV renal trauma under conservative treatment?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-12

  Shirazi, Mehdi ^a   Sefidbakht, Sepideh ^b   Jahanabadi, Zahra ^a   Asadolahpour, Ardalan ^a   Afrasiabi, Mohammad Amin ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Kidney trauma; Reimaging CT scan

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; BLUNT TRAUMA; HEMATOMA; INJURY; KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75649134595     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181ad5835     Document Type: Article

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