The risk of intra-abdominal injuries in pediatric patients with stable blunt abdominal trauma and negative abdominal computed tomography

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 469-475

  Hom, Jeffrey ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Abdominal trauma; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN INJURY; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INFANT; PREVALENCE; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77953593687     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00737.x     Document Type: Review

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