Management of the most severely injured spleen: A multicenter study of the research consortium of New England centers for trauma (ReCONECT)

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 456-460

  Velmahos, George C ^a   Zacharias, Nikos ^a,o   Emhoff, Timothy A ^b   Feeney, James M ^c   Hurst, James M ^d   Crookes, Bruce A ^e   Harrington, David T ^f   Gregg, Shea C ^f   Brotman, Sheldon ^g   Burke, Peter A ^h   Davis, Kimberly A ⁱ   Gupta, Rajan ^j   Winchell, Robert J ^j,k   Desjardins, Steven ^k   Alouidor, Reginald ^l   Gross, Ronald I ^l   Rosenblatt, Michael S ^m   Schulz, John T ⁿ   Chang, Yuchiao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^l BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^o JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952401170     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.58     Document Type: Article

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