Occult pneumothorax in Chinese patients with significant blunt chest trauma: Incidence and management

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 492-494

  Lee, Ka L ^a   Graham, Colin A ^a   Yeung, Janice H H ^a   Ahuja, Anil T ^a   Rainer, Timothy H ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Computed tomography; Pneumothorax; Thoracostomy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHINESE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; CHINA; COMPLICATION; EMPYEMA; HONG KONG; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC INJURIES; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REGISTRIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950020554     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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