Predictors of bleeding from stable pelvic fractures

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-411

  Bramos, Athanasios ^a   Velmahos, George C ^a   Butt, Umar M ^a   Fikry, Karim ^a   Smith, R Malcolm ^a   Chang, Yuchiao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PELVIC BONES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 79954992782     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.277     Document Type: Article

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