Predictors for the selection of patients for abdominal CT after blunt trauma: A proposal for a diagnostic algorithm

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 512-520

  Deunk, Jaap ^a   Brink, Monique ^a   Dekker, Helena M ^a   Kool, Digna R ^a   Blickman, Johan G ^a   Van Vugt, Arie B ^a   Edwards, Michael J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ALKALOSIS; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LONG TERM CARE; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649170785     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181cfd342     Document Type: Article

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