Combat urologic trauma in US military overseas contingency operations

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Serkin, Faye B ^a   Soderdahl, Douglas W ^a   Hernandez, Javier ^a   Patterson, Maria ^a   Blackbourne, Lorne ^b   Wade, Charles E ^b,c  

^a SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Genitourinary injuries; JTTR; OCO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLADDER INJURY; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATING ROOM; PELVIS FRACTURE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SCROTUM; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT; WAR; YOUNG ADULT; ABDOMINAL INJURY; NOTE; SURGICAL TRAINING; URINARY TRACT INJURY; URINARY TRACT SURGERY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PELVIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT; YOUNG ADULT; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011;

EID: 77954795533     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e45cd1     Document Type: Article

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