Selection of patients with severe pelvic fracture for early angiography remains controversial

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Jeroukhimov, Igor ^a,b   Ashkenazi, Itamar ^a,c   Kessel, Boris ^a,c   Gaziants, Vladimir ^a   Peer, Amir ^a,b   Altshuler, Alexander ^a,b   Nesterenko, Vladimir ^a,b   Alfici, Ricardo ^a,c   Halevy, Ariel ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIC GIRDLE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIC BONES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 77951880845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-17-62     Document Type: Article

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