Successful selective nonoperative management of abdominal gunshot wounds despite low penetrating trauma volumes

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 528-532

  Fikry, Karim ^a   Velmahos, George C ^a   Bramos, Athanasios ^a   Janjua, Sumbal ^a   De Moya, Marc ^a   King, David R ^a   Alam, Hasan B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955994746     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.94     Document Type: Article

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