Fatal knee dislocation in a morbidly obese Jehovah's witness. A case report

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1316-1318

  Streubel, Philipp N ^a,b   Arndt, Stephen ^a   Armitage, Marshal S ^a   Wilson, Charles H ^a   Gladden, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Jehovah's Witness; Knee dislocation; Morbid obesity; Outcomes; Vascular injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACE; CASE REPORT; ECCHYMOSIS; FALLING; FATALITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; KNEE DISLOCATION; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LEG PAIN; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERONEUS NERVE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TIBIA FRACTURE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; KNEE DISLOCATION; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POPLITEAL VEIN; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 77957019336     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-008-9733-2     Document Type: Article

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